Distillation apparatus is used for steam and wastewater stripping, chemical product purification and solvent recovery. It consists of metal cylinders armed internally with perforated horizontal plates that are used to promote the separation of miscible liquids that ascend as vapor. Distillation equipment is used extensively in recycling applications and to reduce manufacturing waste. This apparatus usually comprises the use of a heating component and a condensation component to distill the liquid and separate the solvent from water. It is also used to perform steam stripping or distillation of wastewater for removal of hydrocarbons such as alcohols, ketones and acetates. Distillation apparatus are used to recycle and recover contaminants from the manufacturing of polymers, resins and paints. Distillation equipment also contains several other functional components, including an adsorption column or bed, where molecules of solvent in liquid or gas form adheres to the surface of a solid material, rather than enter the solid as in absorption.