Evaporation often encroaches upon the operations known as distillation, drying, and crystallization. In evaporation, no attempt is made to separate components of the vapor. This distinguishes evaporation from distillation. Evaporation is distinguished from drying in that the residue is always a liquid. The desired product may be a solid, but the heat must be transferred in the evaporator to a solution or a suspension of the solid in a liquid. The liquid may be highly viscous or a slurry. Evaporation differs from crystallization in that evaporation is concerned with concentrating a solution rather than producing or building crystals.
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