coffey still heat exchanger

billydshoe · Post by **billydshoe** » Fri May 05, 2006 10:21 am

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building a coffey still and have questions on elec. watts req.
stripping tube 3" copper 22" long.

a water bath unit with 1100 watt cap. is
on order.

i have missgivings about that.

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possum · Post by **possum** » Fri May 05, 2006 11:38 am

Good luck billydshoe.

It will be a few months untill I can build a collumn still, but when I do, I plan to make a coffee style stripping still. It seems to have the best heat use effecieny. I plan to build a vapor management type still mounted on a thumper. The coiled condenser will have wash running through it, and empty into the collumn about 1/3 of the way down. There will be a water filled condenser above the wash filled coil, and a leibig conected to a ball valve on the side.

Continous style use is usefull only for stripping runs. To get the methanol out, you must do a batch distillation.

Please let me know how your construction goes.
possum

billydshoe · Post by **billydshoe** » Fri May 05, 2006 12:16 pm

im in the build stage now, bottem is 22" top 3 x 22 with an offset catchbasin, one valve. im using the dam aproch for the reflux return.

as this heat exchanger is small enuf i can have the beer act as my coolant
as the origanals were.

i have 3 vapor gauges, one on the top, middle, and base. overkill is a sure cure for ignorance. record keeping also.

how does one post picts? im over fifty and have no troble folllowing simple instructions.

hello, im bill love, picayune mississippi

Rocky_Creek · Post by **Rocky_Creek** » Fri May 05, 2006 1:30 pm

I don't know but I'm thinking a coffee still is maybe 50 feet tall and 3 feet in diameter. The height being important, but I could be wrong.