Motie, Have you done any work on making the residue from the still fit for human consumption? By Raw
-----Original Message----- From: motie_d [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 09 February, 2002 10:11 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Re: ethanol distillation --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > there are turbo yeasts available that will withstand > 20%+. with sufficent vacuum you can boil water at > room temp. i would question whether the yeast's ability > to propagate (and therefore produce ethanol)would > be affected by a low vacuum.i think that you are > pursuing an interesting avenue of research. i will try > to dig up some info on boiling ethanol at different > vacuums. > regards, roger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I thoroughly appreciate the effort, Roger. While I am looking to evaporate the Ethanol at 125F, even better would be if I could do it at 100F. I started work on a different integrated systems process several years ago, and it was up in the air with various people trying to tell me it couldn't be done. None could tell me WHY it couldn't be done. I found a solution to every reason anyone could come up with. The Engineering for a commercial plant is in process now, as budgetary constraints abound. Financing is VERY scarce for a concept project. It will be at least 3 years before it is operational. I want to do some small scale work on this concept of using vacuum to somewhat refine the process of fermentation. If someone has insight into WHY it won't work, I'll attempt to resolve the problem before spending money on it. The real proof will be when I can drive down the road burning Ethanol produced this way. The first prototype is liable to look like something from "Junkyard Wars" on TV. I haven't made any effort to determine the marketability of this idea, and have no plans to do so in the future. To the best of my knowledge, this will NOT be a patentable concept. If it is, I have just made public the basis, and precluded someone else trying to do so. Consider this my legal disclaimer to all. Motie 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/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
