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Jim Wilkins[_2_] Jim Wilkins[_2_] is offline
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Default Continuous still

"RogerN" wrote in message
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Here's some info.

http://homedistiller.org/equip/cont
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_still
http://www.ferromit.com/continuous%20still.html With Videos
http://www.instructables.com/id/Chea...ic-fuel-still/

The first link is close to what I'm thinking of, not exactly though.
If water is heated to 210 Deg. F would their be much/any alcohol
left in it?

RogerN


If you have to ask that you don't know nearly enough chemistry to
design a continuous process still.

Dig in:
http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/skoge/pu...tiontheory.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractionating_column
Making it continuous requires some serious chemical engineering and
probably real-time analysis of the product stream. I'd start with
having it sense when the distillation completes and shut down.

jsw