Our waterways are becoming more and more polluted due to PFAS, plastics, medicines, drugs, and new chemicals made by companies that just hand over the responsibility of cleaning to plants paid for by public moneys. Detecting the different chemicals and filtering them out if getting harder and harder. Could the simple solution of heating up past a point where even PFAS/forever chemicals decomposes (400C for PFAS, 500C to be more sure about other stuff) be alright?
Yeah, turning wastewater plants into sewage distilleries doesn’t seem like a public health win.
What exactly do you think evaporation ponds are doing, then?
Evaporation is a component of distilling, but if you don’t capture the vapor and condense it it’s just evaporation.
Why would you capture it? It’s waste water, evaporation into the atmosphere should be fine.
Because if you capture it you’re distilling instead of evaporating. I’m just pointing out the difference between the two. If you read further up, you will see that I don’t think it’s a good idea.
Distillation doesn’t have to be of water. Not all impurities are solid. And the evaporated water does go back into the water pool, just with steps we aren’t directly involved in.
Has any ody suggesting distillation?
I cannot comprehend things for you.
But you can make them up?
There might be things in the vapor that haven’t decomposed or that have decomposed, are toxic, and become airborne.
Like what? Heavy metals would precipitate, organic compounds would break down. (I’m not a chemist, just have general science background).
not a chemist, but couldn’t chemicals with boiling points near 95-100C like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylmercury survive?