Question

What are the basic methods of distillation?

(a) Fractional distillation and simple distillation

(b) Fractional distillation, destructive distillation and simple distillation

(c) Steam distillation, simple distillation and gas distillation

(d) Steam distillation and destructive distillation

I had been asked this question by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

Enquiry is from Distillation Basics in portion Distillation of Food Processing Unit Operations

Answer 1

Right choice is (b) Fractional distillation, destructive distillation and simple distillation

To explain: Simple distillation, fractional distillation where different volatile fractions are collected as during the process and destructive distillation where a material is heated so that it decomposes into compounds for collection.