The simplest steam setup?
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:45 am
I have no experience with steam distillation. There are distilleries that use steam for their grappa. I've seen some projects here but I operate on a small scale and it's not really worth building complicated steam generators. The question is: a setup with a 20-liter kettle of boiling water, connected at the bottom to a pot filled with skins and equipped with column would work? Direct steam, without valves, second pot equal in volume to the first. Once I did a test out of curiosity and the steam got to the second pot condenses naturally and this made me think that the second pot should fill up a bit before it works, considerations on this? Thank you all.
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