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Full automatic comumn

Postby Dynamic » Fri Apr 22, 2016 10:21 pm

Write error in the title :(

As I learned in school and as I see on my work: a column with an automatic feed, is this rare for home brewing?

Example:
100 liter wash, with a feed rate of 5 l/h, a reboiler of 5 liter. The fores comes out at the top which is cooled by 60°C "cooling" water, a few centimeters down, at 78,5°C, ethanol comes out, with a reflux system.
My school has a basic version of this, we learned to distill wine. Pretty awesome, 1 l/h @90+, non-stop, 24/7.

Is this unique?
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Re: Full automatic comumn

Postby Easydrinker » Sat Apr 23, 2016 3:22 am

This post does not make sense!
Do you want to try again?

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Re: Full automatic comumn

Postby Myles » Sat Apr 23, 2016 4:13 am

You seem to be talking about a continuous fractionating column.

Possible but not often used in this hobby. Sometimes continuous columns are used as stripping columns. Not fractionating columns though.

Most often seen in schools as demonstration units that are separating very simple water alcohol mixtures (not usually more complex fermented washes) to demonstrate fractional distillation.

We don't do fractional distillation in this hobby, because in most cases our product is still a mixture of different volatile components and water.
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Re: Full automatic comumn

Postby Mash » Sat Apr 23, 2016 4:57 am

I have seen crude moonshiners kit that is a continuous still. But that's just a stripper. Go the plans somewhere.....
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Re: Full automatic comumn

Postby Dynamic » Sat Apr 23, 2016 12:01 pm

Easydrinker wrote:This post does not make sense!
Do you want to try again?

Robert.

Sorry for the bad grammar.

@Mash & Myles, yes, those. It's awesome to control one, I wanted to know if someone maybe had one.
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Re: Full automatic comumn

Postby Myles » Sat Apr 23, 2016 1:59 pm

Sometimes I am a bit abrut. I am not being intentionally rude, it is just a charecter flaw.

I am going to agree with you. Fractionating columns, yes they are good, but not really suited to this application.

I am biased because at heart I am a pot stiller. I do have a packed column, but I treat it as an exception for a specific use.

I am building a short plated column, but it is still a potstill.

ONLY because I will use it as a sophisticated pot still. Other folks might use it as a short reflux column.

Fractionating columns, I don't know anyone with one, continuous stripping columns, yes they are about.
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Re: Full automatic comumn

Postby Easydrinker » Sat Apr 23, 2016 11:06 pm

And I am also going to apologise to you Dynamic, I had totally missed that English was not your first language.
Sometimes,usually very late at night and early in the morning, I am a little abrupt also, mostly due to excessive consumption of my products.
I very seldom mean such posts to read in an offensive manner.
And +1 with what Myles said above concerning columns.

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Re: Full automatic comumn

Postby Dynamic » Sun Apr 24, 2016 2:29 pm

My translation to English is ok, but my grammar (sometimes) not.
And no problem :p I'm used to it haha
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