Marc, and anyone else intereted in easy stills, the Stillmaker site is very nice looking, and has some good advice and general info. However, the still has at least one major design flaw. Do NOT put the second cooling line through the bottom of the tower. It's a total waste of time and energy and actually hurts the temperature balance you are trying to set up in your coloumn in the first place. There is some talk that it will help prevent a surge in your column, but if this is happening, you have oversized your heating element (or undersized the rest of your still). If you want, put a second (or third, or better yet a whole inside coil of) cooling lines in your column AT THE TOP. The whole idea of the pass through cooling lines is to make a cold surface that will condense vapor and increase your reflux ratio. This will make your still produce higher proof ethanol. If the line is at the bottom of the column, it doesn't do any good because the vapor it condenses doesn't have the benefit of driping down the whole length of the column (refluxing) which is the whole point.
Hope that helps, lots of good advice also available on the "distillers" group here at yahoo. mostly ethanol for human consumption, not fuel, but lots of knowledge of both. -Andrew --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Marc > > >Somebody posted a link not too long ago to a Web site giving, in about > >14 pages, a simple scheme for distilling alcohol. I downloaded the pdf > >version of the document, but the file is corrupt and I need to try > >again. > > Do you mean the StillMaker? It's here: > http://stillmaker.dreamhost.com/ > > >This was not a site reachable from the Biofuels page. > > Which Biofuels page? It's on our Ethanol page, and Steve's ethanol > page at Webconx. > http://journeytoforever.org/ethanol_link.html > Ethanol resources on the Web > > Keith Addison > Journey to Forever > Handmade Projects > Tokyo > http://journeytoforever.org/ > > > >Help! > > > >Marc de Piolenc Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
