Industrial & Commercial Water Distillers

Overview of DE and ADE Series industrial water distillers with capacity from 40 to 210 l/h and various heating elements

Livam is a manufacturer of heavy-duty DE and ADE Series industrial and commercial water distillers.

What are the differences between the industrial and laboratory water distillers? What heating elements are used in the ADE and DE Series water distillers? What is the difference between tubular heating elements and electrodes? What are the key points when choosing an industrial water distiller? These are the most common questions of our customers.

In reply to all of them, let’s start with the fundamental difference between the industrial and laboratory water distillers.

Unlike laboratory water distillers, industrial distillers have a larger operating volume of the evaporation and condensation chambers. Besides, two different types of heating elements are used in Livam industrial water stills.

Water in the ADE Series distillers is heated with tubular electric heaters. Heat is released when electric current passes through the heater coil, which has significant electrical resistance.

The DE Series industrial water distillers are based on а different physical principle: the role of the spiral conductor is taken by water in the evaporation chamber. Electric current passing through the water between two electrodes causes its heating.

What source water is preferable for the ADE and DE Series water distillers?

Water hardness (which is actually the content of dissolved salts) is extremely important for the DE and ADE Series heavy-duty industrial water distillers. The ADE Series commercial water distillers can operate both on “soft” tap water with hardness of less than 7.0 mg-equ/L and on “hard” water.

As for the DE Series stills, they can not operate on “soft” water. Source water with hardness of more than 7.0 mg-equ/L is a prerequisite for their optimal operation, because high salt content significantly increases the level of water resistance resulting in efficient heating and high performance of the water distiller.

What do you need to know when choosing a commercial water distiller?

When choosing a high-capacity water distiller, please remember that it needs regular maintenance due to the high heat load and intensive evaporation of large volumes of water. To avoid malfunctioning of ADE water distillers they should be regularly cleaned from scale, as scale formed on the inner walls impairs heat transfer, tubular electric heaters are overheated and may burn out in the future. This is well seen when "hard" water is used. Besides, operation of the ADE Series water distiller is not allowed if there is no water in the evaporation chamber. That is why the distiller is equipped with a water level sensor preventing from the distiller operation when empty.

All DE series industrial water distillers with electrode heating are also subject to periodic cleaning and maintenance. However, they are less sensitive to cleanliness of the evaporation chamber, and a slight fouling of electrodes with scale is not critical and does not cause them to burn out. Since water is heated without use of a coil, this type of water distiller can withstand short-term emergency operation without water in the evaporation chamber. Unpretentiousness and efficiency of the DE Series industrial distillers ensure their wide distribution in different countries around the world.

If you are going to buy a heavy-duty industrial water distiller, please remember that due to the less volume of the evaporation chamber, the ADE Series water distillers (with tubular heating elements) have lower capacity if compared to the DE Series distillers. Maximum capacity of the ADE Series water distillers is 50 l/h. They are preferable for the medical institutions, companies and laboratories located in the areas with “soft” tap water.

The DE Series distillers have a different configuration of the evaporation and condensation chamber, which enables getting from 40 to 210 liters of distilled water per hour. More powerful cables, circuit breakers and automatic devices are used for connection of DE electrode distillers. Industrial water distillers of DE Series have been designed for large-scale production facilities with high consumption of distilled water.

Service life of the DE and ADE Series industrial water distillers is individual and is mostly determined by the quality of tap water fed to the distiller, intensity of use, and frequency of maintenance. The most common service life, if properly used and serviced, is more than 5 years.