Continuous stripper

[manu de hanoi]

The video for details :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lisls5KeT7o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Operation limits for the device have yet to be tested, the power plug started melting at 6kw ...

[LWTCS]

Thats very cool.

Whats your longest run time/largest quantity?

Hope you don't mind I was compeled to significantly reduce the (background music) volume. No matter.

Thanks for sharing.

[ty-tek]

Looks good but I think I'd stick to a Ampage your plug was made for Ampage = Wattage/voltage

You have a major fire hazard if you carry on overloading your cable and plug - I'm an electrician and happy to offer advice.

[Whitedog]

You might want to put a trainer on that output... it would keep it from jumping around. I bent a piece of #12 awg solid copper wire for mine.

[mrhooch]

Hey manu....

How did you make your flow meter?

Hooch

[manu de hanoi]

Whats your longest run time/largest quantity?

i just do small test runs of 20 minutes. What you see is perhaps the 6 th build and the 10th run on that type of device.

Looks good but I think I'd stick to a Ampage your plug was made for Ampage = Wattage/voltage

You have a major fire hazard if you carry on overloading your cable and plug - I'm an electrician and happy to offer advice.

the platic plug is rated 16 A and what i need is 6000w/(220ac/2^0.5) = 38 A ? I could find bigger cables but I can't find a ceramic plug. I think i'll connect that to the distribution line. can you advice a diy connection that wouldnt generate too much heat?

How did you make your flow meter?

it's just 2 bronze Ts of different diameter connected as shown, the calibration was made with a stop watch and an eprouvette and the principle is here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venturi_meter" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

[LWTCS]

Manu,
Why would you not just go with a 3 or 4 conductor Range plug ? 50 amp rating.

Something similar to what I have on this harness here.

[manu de hanoi]

Manu,
Why would you not just go with a 3 or 4 conductor Range plug ? 50 amp rating.

Something similar to what I have on this harness here.

cause i never heard of it How does that work ?

[ty-tek]

Get an electrician in before you have an accident!

Just don't tell him what it's for!!!

[LWTCS]

Ty-tek has a point. However he does not know that you are the world renouned Manu

Seriously though, thought you'd be a bit more along with the sparky stuff.

The plug end on the harness is a four conductor dryer plug (not range).
I have a 200 amp panel, so I installed a 30 amp breaker W/#8s to the corrasponding female plug shown below. This recepticle is in my stilling area.

Yes I went heavy, as my harness is yet another extension of my,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ego.

All this stuff is available at any homey dopey or blowes.

I chose the four conductor so I can use the white to step down to 120 volts with a DPDT switch.

The twist and lock male and female ends shown (to my boiler) are also available at the big box stores.

[kiwistiller]

nice work manu. your insulation is held together with sticky tape, you're a man after my own heart

So, pricing / availability?

[manu de hanoi]

nice work manu. your insulation is held together with sticky tape, you're a man after my own heart

So, pricing / availability?

Yeah I am always torn between making it beautiful for demo purpose and making it quick cause in a prototype I never know when the build is the last one...

for pricing this aint completely settled but I thought of 1000 usd base price and 700 usd for the first 3 buyers. + a lot of shipping, the thing is heavy. I'd rather test it for a couple of weeks more before selling it in order to give buyers some numbers they could rely on for flow, power etc....

The advantage of this setup is (beside the common advantages of continuous setups): it's small
-the stripper without the column is 43 cm (16") high x 50 cm wide and 5cm width
-it allows you to plug a column on top for fuel without reaching crazy heights (as with most other continuous strippers around), and with a second column for heads you can make fine light rum/vodka
-very low abv on the spent wash. I have yet to be convinced the charles 803 and co are efficient in that matter


disadvantage
-rather long initial setup (but then if you leave it there there is no setup for next runs)
-no thick washes / solids

[kiwistiller]

is this power efficient? what sort of flow input rate were you pulling at 6 kw?

[manu de hanoi]

is this power efficient? what sort of flow input rate were you pulling at 6 kw?

-it's about 10% more efficient energy wise than a batch still (basically the wash can be brought to near boiling point for free)
- I have yet to retry a 6kw run but my target since my first build 2 years ago has always been 25L of wash/hour. Been too lazy to calculate the theoretical power required for that

[kiwistiller]

ah ok sweet I was wondering about comparison with a batch still. Can you just hook it up to a keg or preexisting boiler for the steam generator, or would that creat a host of power standardisation problems?

[manu de hanoi]

ah ok sweet I was wondering about comparison with a batch still. Can you just hook it up to a keg or preexisting boiler for the steam generator, or would that creat a host of power standardisation problems?

you can connect it to any recipient with boiling water. On that setup, focus is on making things compact and the steam generator has to be filled continuously with a thin stream of water to avoid depletion, but it's not mandatory and any boiler will do.

[kiwistiller]

hmm thats interesting. is there the potential to recycle some of the spent wash as the water feed?

[manu de hanoi]

hmm thats interesting. is there the potential to recycle some of the spent wash as the water feed?

Well you could, but steam distilled booze tastes much better.

[kiwistiller]

cheers for the q & a manu. love your work.