How Volatiles Can Affect Your Distillation Process

This video provides an overview of how volatile materials can affect your distillation process, and how you can identify them. If you've run wiped-film equipment before, you've likely have run into vacuum issues at least once in your career. Weak vacuum can often be caused by a leak in your system, which can be frustrating to fix. However, if your system is vacuum tight and the pressure increases dramatically above the desired range when feeding material to the still – what might be the issue? The likely cause is the presence of volatiles in your feed material.