User:Ayapici/enes100/Distillation

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Give instructor top 3 project choice list
I made a chose to work with the same team on a perfume project

Write problem statement
To determine how to develop perfume using a scientific process known as distillation, also how to use wine or any alcohol to see how much perfume is in the in the wine?

Assign Task1
My first task is going to be preview other experiments about scientific perfume distillation and collect some information that I can use for the set up of distillation.

Compare actual work done to Task1
I have made a lot of research about distillation, and understand how it works now. The distillation method is the one of the ways that we can create our own perfume.I have learned the history of perfume and where it started and where it came from, little background acknowledge.

Week1 Narrative
*videos from web
 * fractional distillation video
 * documentary of our scents video

*websites
 * Introduction to perfume


 * the procedure of distillation
 * perfume history



*personal videos
 * Video of my incomplete set up

what is distilation? Distillation is a widely used method for separating mixtures based on differences in the conditions required to change the phase of components of the mixture. To separate a mixture of liquids, the liquid can be heated to force components, which have different boiling points, into the gas phase. The gas is then condensed back into liquid form and collected. Repeating the process on the collected liquid to improve the purity of the product is called double distillation.

The main task of this week was to set up for the distillation experiment.. This week, I was in the ENES lab firstly doing a lot of research online. I stated reading about the history of perfume and where it was originated, if anybody is interested, just click to this link :perfume history and will explain everything in details. After my research, I try to develop the main set up in lab, but had some issues my first issue was not knowing the chemical instrument, and secondly, I could not find a stand to stabilize whole set up,I have connected most of the parts and tried to put on the heater to see if it stays without holding it, the result was not successful, I was not able to find anything to give support.. I have connected all the glassware correctly except one thing; as you can see on the picture on here the vertical pipe has three output and I have to close two of them to start my experiment, I came out with idea, which was to close the holes with some aluminium foil and rubber band..

Even though, I have not started my interesting experiment,I was able to come up with some ideas to push this project forward. I will be bringing some foil and rubber band and may be bring some alcohol to test my experiment. To start the distillation items I have just mentioned are just I need so far for this week..

Week1 Peer Review
I posted a comment on User talk:Zchill/enes100/Distillation regarding the same task for next week. I also commented on Ben's individual page regarding his experiment needs another temperature....User talk:Baminnick/enes100/Distillation

Assign Task2
For the next task I will be testing set up I have build for the distillation, and if I get some more time I will be making home made perfume from essential oils...

Compare actual work done to Task2
For this week, I was able to get some pure alcohol from the distillation, and the experiment went really well, but we were not able to determine the density of before and after heating the alcohol.

Week2 Narrative


This week task was completed with some problems, but still managed to get the set up and the distillation work. At first, I was trying to set up my tubes and flask and get the other laboratory instruments together.. This part of the experiment can take time if you really don't know where you connecting them.. eventually, all the parts were found and connected correctly.. my next task was to add some alcohol inside the flask and start the distillation, but I found some issues, first I don't have enough alcohol and second, I did not know what type of alcohol is in the bottles that are shown in the pictures above. I did not have any other options at present but I have put on my note book what I need for the next experiment, which will be on Wednesday. I used all the alcohol were in the bottle, and add some water too.. I had 20ml total liquid ready in the flask to be heated... I started heating the flask and observing the temperatures from the flask and see where it goes, which was around 70 C degrees.. After 10 minute alcohol boiling in the flask, I have seen the temperature increasing rapidly.. I have also seen the condensation going up the tubes and starts dripping inside the graduated cylinder.. As a result I had 20ml at the beginning and I have left with 5 ml pure distilled alcohol.


 * video 1
 * video 2
 * video 3

there were two problems; one was which alcohol was I using, two; was to find the density of alcohol before and after heating.. For the solutions, I will be using wine this week and I will be measuring everything before and after heating the experiment.Another solution will be to find the density of wine before hand, as in true value of density of wine..

Week2 Peer Review
I posted a comment on User talk:Zchill/enes100/Distillation regarding to push the project further. I also commented on Ben's individual page regarding his complete points and he does not have to do anything any more, but still can join us anytime he wants.User talk:Baminnick/enes100/Distillation

Assign Task3
since I have the wine and ready set up, I will be determining the density of the wine or alcohol and after heating it up,for the next task and also, I will recheck the density if pure alcohol that came out of the wine..

Compare actual work done to Task3
I could not find the accurate density of wine, but the process was successful and lead me to captured sudden temperature changes represent a gas boiling point which are different alcohols...

Week3 Narrative


Monday we got to try out the distillation set up using wine but having some issues with the complete distillation process, we failed to separate out each individual scent. we have spent lot of time on Monday to get the whole alcohol out by waiting temperature to increase to 100 C degrees, and we collect all of the distilled pure alcohol in one beaker. This was not completely wrong but was not the way to get scents from a component. I was recording the data and performing calculations on weight and density, taking some note in my notebook, and also watching the temperature changes.. The whole thing was was a good learning process, but it didn't really result in different scents that we wanted to.

However Wednesday, we repeated the experiment once again but we made sure to separate out the vials based on the temperature that the vapor stopped on. Main goal was to watch the temperature and record when it stops, and change the 5ml flask to collect a different alcohol, in total we have got six different temperature changes rapidly,as a result we have 6 different pure alcohol.

and here are the data for alcohols

Even though I have not got complete scents from any alcohol, but I have determined and understood the way distillation works...two more things was important and there were sensitivity and accuracy in the whole experiment..


 * Monday experiment
 * Wednesday experiment

Week3 Peer Review
I posted a comment on User talk:Zchill/enes100/Distillation regarding his wiki work for this week that he has put some effort into it. and completing the team page.

Assign Task4

 * to determine which alcohol is used
 * to find the accurate density better than last week experiment
 * to record more detail for the calculations
 * and complete the team page.
 * if I have time to right a process of distillation or procedure or tutorials for fellow students

Compare actual work done to Task4
This week, I was trying to complete my wiki work, and were not able to one more experiment on this project..

Week4 Narrative
I have, work on team page and tried to complete the project, I collected all the data,and all the information from my engineering notebook,basically analyzing and summarizing the whole perfume project.. I have spend most of my time on wikiversity this week..

Week4 Peer Review
I posted a comment on User talk:Zchill/enes100/Distillation regarding his wiki work he should have done some of the team page exc...

Complete Project Page
As a result, this project was very interesting and very fascinated to all of us in the team, we have had some experiments how to get some scent from any kind of alcohol, but due to the lack of chemical instruments we were not able to get better result, but still we had the concepts of perfume distillation...we have complete the project and gained a lot of knowledge, about perfume creation.

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