Acetone and other volatile solvents are often utilized in industrial applications. Acetone is mainly used for industrial cleaning when lab material is contaminated with undesired residue. After the acetone is used to clean lab equipment, often times companies discard the solvents at a large expense. This project focuses on creating a small scale acetone distillation system to purify these contaminated solvents in order to reuse them. This paper will outline the research, design, and assembly of this system. The group assembled the contaminated acetone distillation system and provided recommendations for improvements to the system that can create a more efficient and commercialized distillation unit.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Arsenault, Chase Michael
• Baranowski, Olivia A.
• Costello, Tyler Thomas
• Batchelder, Nicholas Emerson

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032019-162433

Advisor

• Guceri, Selcuk

Year

• 2019

Date created

• 2019-03-20

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright