I am considering my whole rig to be 4 1/2 feet tall, and about 1 1/2 feet wide. I was going to make the coil 4" wide and 4' feet long. Is there a way I can condense the vapor without using a water source?
hi guest;
Do a search on google for"finned tubing"
On the yahoo distillers forum do a search for air cooling.
Riku (rkr) has done a lot of work on this an no doubt will fill you in.
I am considering my whole rig to be 4 1/2 feet tall, and about 1 1/2 feet wide. I was going to make the coil 4" wide and 4' feet long. Is there a way I can condense the vapor without using a water source?
Convector pipes are very usefull in this application. Alternatively you can make a copper spiral, insert it into a 120mm (or larger) pipe and have a fan blowing through the pipe. Sizing depends on your heating power and you didn't give any information about that. As an example I have 1kW automated reflux still that's using ambient air-cooling.
I have decided to wrap a 1/4" coil that is 20' long around a 2' 3/4" piping.
I am going to have it pump water and have it return water to a 5 gallon jug with water/ice mixture. I am thinking a simple 65 GPH should work fine.
Should this work?
or why not just make a simple liebig condensor, get an old plastic trash bin and hook up a garden pond submersible fountain pump. This is my setup, i even used hoselock connectors of the T pieces on the liebig for ease of connections n breaking it all down after.