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so no one pursued this ?

it's probably much more soluble in water than etoh if used as drying agent. Moreover, if we wanted to break the azeo we'd try to bring the boiling points of etoh and water further apart not closer to each other, wouldnt we ? On top of that the use of the salt would only work for one single evaporati...

thinking the potassium acetate will significantly reduce the volatility of the ethanol raising its boiling point

is potassium acetate soluble in ethanol ?

I completely failed getting 100 % abv under vacuum, in short the trouble with vacuum is that you are trying to make heat and mass transfer between liquid and .... almost nothing. To makes things harder, the nothing takes a lot of space (choking), and travels super fast. not all in vain though, pot s...

5Fc4wjBLQeM Here's the reasonning behind the design : Some essential oils require a lot of steam (=water) to distill and a fraction of the fragrances can be trapped in the water. The natural conclusion is to recycle that water aka floral water aka hydrolat. That is traditionally done using a floren...

you must put it above the liebig because 1) if you put it below then the liebig will likely keep filling up when you close the valve preventing you from increasing reflux as intended 2) after it has more or less filled up you may want to reopen the valve and you will get a temporary high flow becaus...

There are some good threads that explain the differences in the different designs. A column with a dephlagmater is a CM column and a boka is a LM. So you can look into the differences and learn how they operate. http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=13342 this is the correct answe...

me too

Flyer Tuck wrote:I am a new member and just tried to download the PDF in the first post and it only comes in at 115kB instead of 1.37MB, is only has the first page and that is unreadable.

How do I get the whole paper?

Thanks in advance,

Flyer

still no solution. DAD reports good control on his design

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Even in an industrial city/town getting copper is a tough call, I have to order most of it in

I dont see how copper, from electric wire or whatever could be more expensive than copper+sulfate + vitamin C

toss scrap copper on top of a stainless steel scrubber in the riser

Because a bunch of crap is needed when your still is made from Stainless steel??? It's also worth mentioning you will still have sulfur in distillate regardless, copper provides immediate removal of it so you can work with distillate more quickly and judge your cuts without waiting for two days. ju...

kaziel wrote:Do you have some photos of your still? Reminds me design called aabratek.

please check the video link on this thread http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16053

the small coils dont have to be far apart (except for fabrication convenience) on the LM

Hi guys, it's flattering to see the CC still is still getting some attention. There is an issue with the still that prevents me from advocating it's use. Control is poor. I think it has to be "linearized" a little bit. Meaning most condensation occurs on the firsts few loops of the condens...

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I dont think people thread copper, if that's you're looking for. probably because it's too soft. I'd look for something made of brass instead

- Even if you had a huge siphon (about the same height than the distill column) you'd still be wasting energy by returning that reflux from the rectif column to the 1st plate of the distill column. Reflux of the rectif must be returned to the TOP of the distill column. I'm well aware that it would ...

Sorry for going off topic here a bit blondie :oops: No i don't think so Manu, I think the still was made if not by him then under his instruction. built for him by Savalle I meant The same government owned company also ran a ten fold savalle still and a guillaume rectifer along with some spice stil...

@ Manu not sure where you get the idea that a barbet still can only be ran as a continuous still. its my understanding that the Finnish whiskey distillery "Rajamaki (among others) ran this still as a batch still from around 1919 or at least by 1923 till about 1994 :? you may or may not have no...

please dont put Barbet's name on that still. If just because it's not continuous and that's what Barbet was about. But it's also different on many other points. - Vapor will blow the small syphon on the 1st plate and enter the rectif because the path is much less resistant than going through the n p...

etching has the opposite effect, it helps wetting the SPP. You dont want that on your condenser .

OOOooohhhh...I didn't say it was easy or I'd be selling it to you guys! I said it was a once in a life time job to get enough for a large column. lol, it took me days of work to get the first rig going. How much time did you spent making you rig, running it and then cutting the strands into small p...

1 meter of SPP will take you to azeotrope in a single run on a 2" column.

A few questions, My temp probe is like 6" long, not sure how well it will work with only 1" inserted into the pipe, so maybe an insultated 1/4" pipe coming off to hold it? I've read and reread the coil making PDF on here, but have a few questions, what are the diameters of the mandre...

could you measure the chilling effect by running the cooling tower with the still turned off and measuring the temperature at the dropplet collection point vs the temp of the water input ? For ex : dropplet water input : barrel at room temp air : room temp dropplet collector: ?? Just for that measur...

The tower works on the concept of evaporation. Think about taking a shower. Your in there nice and warm ..then shut off the water and step out....presto ...your skin becomes cold....and why is that you say....evaporation. As the water evaporates it cools your skin. I use the same in the tower. The ...

I dont get it, on your prev setup you were blowing air on the copper cooling pipe, now you are blowing air in water in contact with the cooling pipes is that correct ? Why is that better ? a very simple sketch would help.

Hi Manu! You wrote - "the energy savings are quite small". I think you are missing the point of vacuum distilling. The question is not about energy input itself but more about cost of input energy. For small scale hobby distilling it is not important because your home made booze will be m...

look at the bokakob in the stickies