Water We Drinking?

By Colette Pedersen, Lilly Jacob, Alexis Bishop, Brittany

Fung, and Matt Cassidy
What is Desalination
- The process of removing minerals, salts, and or dirt from
water by boiling water, catching and cooling down the
steam to purify water enough for human consumption.
 ❏ Hot Plate
❏ Aluminium foil
How to build ❏ Plastic wrap
our desalination ❏
❏
Tubing
Salt Water
machine ❏ Ice to transform water
vapour back to water
Materials we used to create our
❏ Cup
filter
 ❏ Wrap a cup of salt water with
aluminum foil, boil it(hot plate)
❏ Insert tube in pot for steam to
travel through

How it works ❏ Have another clean cup and

insert the other end of the
tube in it
❏ Water gets boiled and steam
gets captured into the tube,
while particles in water stay
behind.
Our Filter:
Salt water composition
ionic constituent g/kg of seawater moles/kg relative concentration
Chloride 19.162 0.5405 1.0000
Sodium 10.679 0.4645 0.8593
Magnesium 1.278 0.0526 0.0974
Sulfate 2.680 0.0279 0.0517
Calcium 0.4096 0.01022 0.0189
Potassium 0.3953 0.01011 0.0187
carbon (inorganic) 0.0276 0.0023 0.0043
Bromide 0.0663 0.00083 0.00154
Boron 0.0044 0.00041 0.00075
Strontium 0.0079 0.00009 0.000165
Fluoride 0.0013 0.00007 0.000125
 Ions used to make salt
How to create water:

salt water ● sodium chloride

(Na+)(Cl−) 29 grams
● magnesium
sulfate(Mg2+)(SO24−) 4.2
grams
Data
Amount of Amount of pH Before pH After Test TDS Before TDS After
water before water After test

1 500mL 75mL 7.49 3.88 783 51

2 500mL 25mL 7.49 3.34 783 92

3 500mL 10mL 6.38 7.5 783 20

4 500mL 18 mL 6.38 6.9 783 13

What we noticed:
- Made water safe to drink through filter.
- No visual difference.
- Fourth test worked best after we changed tubes/cleaned everything.
- First 2 trials weren’t successful, pH of water was very acidic than when it was initially.
- Changed materials we used(smaller tube, new beaker)
- Changes we made the water neutral and drinkable while before the particles and dirt from
the unclean materials would affect the pH level significantly.
- New materials made experiments more successful.
Thank you for listening