Commercial Distillery Diagram/Layout
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 12:29 pm
I have always been curious about the actual flow/diagram of a commercial distillery. Can't find much online. I have a book by Oscar Goetz, president of Barton Bourbon years ago, and founder of the Oscar Goetz Whiskey Museum in Bardstown, KY, and in that book is a two page diagram of a commercial distillery. I worked on it in photoshop quite a bit, but old black and white is not easy to work with, apologies for the quality.
My research was focused on the collumn (number 21 on the diagram). From what I gather, the low wines are fed in through the top of the still and steam jets at the bottom (number 22) are run up through the plates and then the take off is adjusted at whatever plate the correct state of the product is coming off.
I'd hoped it would come off better and I would like to see anything similar to this if anyone has any. Specifically, the collumn/steam/liquid feed setups.
Thanks.
Have to use photobucket to get this size, it's 1,700 pixels wide and is too hard to read at smaller size.
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My research was focused on the collumn (number 21 on the diagram). From what I gather, the low wines are fed in through the top of the still and steam jets at the bottom (number 22) are run up through the plates and then the take off is adjusted at whatever plate the correct state of the product is coming off.
I'd hoped it would come off better and I would like to see anything similar to this if anyone has any. Specifically, the collumn/steam/liquid feed setups.
Thanks.
Have to use photobucket to get this size, it's 1,700 pixels wide and is too hard to read at smaller size.
http://s241.photobucket.com/user/duanee ... l.jpg.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
