Started off with the spark plug ...that didn't work, sorry no pics, moved onto plan “B”
I am a bit leery of putting up a video, so I took a couple screen grabs of the Flooding/Boiling. If anyone has any ideas for uploading Vids Incognito, let me know.
- Distilled in shed, no wind, door partially open, attic exhaust fan on and a fan in open window exhausting out.
- Approx. 28% low wines
- approximately 11 gallon charge
- 5 gallons coolant per 19 minutes, a little more than 15 gallons an hour. Water was recycled into the garden and used to clean squirrel mess on my patio of walnut casings, they stain like hell
water coolant in 70F approx.
- Water coolant Outlet 118-137 during run.
- Insulated column
- Removed and Replaced SPP, tapped lightly once.
- Removed copper mesh from top of SPP
No I'm not gonna leave it like that!
Suggestions I did not do,
- Place a thermo in the center of the packed column.
8:20 - low heat
9:45 - refluxing
10:00 – perking/boiling, turned down flame, refluxed 15 minutes.
turned heat up, increased output trying to maintain a 1-1 reflux to takeoff.
1. 10:20 - 10:30 half/Pint 172F (fores) reflux 1-1 broken stream.
Fores are tossed in my alcohol cleaning jar for still cleaning and hopefully a sacrificial run for my not-yet-built pot still
Starting collecting product 10:30 water outlet 118F Distillate 84F
2. 10:30 - 10:38 Pint 172F Distillate at 84F w/ correction 96.1.......Reflux 2-1
3. 10:38 - 10:45 Pint 172F-------------------------------------------------Reflux 2-1
4. 10:45 - 10:52 Pint 172F-------------------------------------------------Reflux 2-1
5. 10:52 - 10:59 Pint 172F-------------------------------------------------Reflux 2-1
6. 10:59 - 11:06 Pint 172F-------------------------------------------------Reflux 2-1
7. 11:06 - 11:14 Pint 172F-------------------------------------------------Reflux 2-1
8. 11:14 - 11:22 Pint 172F-------------------------------------------------Reflux 2-1
9. 11:22 - 11:30 Pint 178F
10. 11:30 – 11:40 Pint 178F
so the first gallon was about one hour and I thought this was great.
When I got to the end of #9 @178F, I put the still in full reflux for about 3 minutes before it started flooding, once it started flooding, I opened output and was at a ratio of 1-1
11. 11:40 – 11:47 Pint, 178F, put back in full reflux and cut heat back
12. 11:47 – 12:08 Pint, 172F
13. 12:09 – 12:17 Pint 172F
14. 12:27 – 12:45 Pint. @12:35 temp up to 178F equalized column again, turned up heat
15. 12:45 – 12:52 Pint, Flooded
16. 12:52 – 1:04 Pint, had to increase reflux to a 3-1 ratio to keep column stable, product takeoff slowed significantly, bumped up the heat, temp back up to 178F, bumped up heat again and decreased out put and increased reflux 4-1
17. 1:04 – 1:28 Pint 172F
18. 1:28 – 1:54 Pint 172F
19. 1:54 – 2:21
20. 2:21 – 2:38
21. 2:38 – 3:00 Half Pint, 178F – 180F. Started seeing what looked like oil in water mixture figured it was late tails and STOPPED AT 3:00 PM , dumped this in my waste alcohol jar.
Perk/Flooding screen grabs
Notes.
- Collected 20 pints. The first 8 pints was an absolute pleasure, a pint every 7-9 minutes...was like autopilot, after that I was on my toes the whole time.
- I could tell when the temp was climbing as soon as I walked into the shed, it was humid and hotter than when running at 172...weird, was like walking into a sauna
- Temp would rise, sight glass would start to get foggy then get wet before Perking, once perking, I would dial heat back and open output, then once column stopped perking, I would reflux to equalize column, temp would drop to 172, sight window would dry up and be clear.
- Sight glass stayed dry and crystal clear as long as the temp was at 172F.
- Ran the Kab 6 pretty low, I used much less propane than I normally do and the shed didn't get as hot as it used to