Columns lower than the Pot

CothermanDistilling

where does the pressure reliever go? outside or inside? is it big enough to handle all the power you throw at it? If it is any smaller of a pressure relief than your vapor pipe to the first column, why?

marcus

here is the still in bits

Myles

If you have steam coil heating already, just stick a reboiler in the base of each column. You don't need to pump bottoms back to the top of the columns as you are already providing a source of reflux.

All you need to deal with is a potential excess of column bottoms, which can be captured to add back into subsequent runs. It you size the reboilers correctly they won't overflow anyway. There are ways to totally eliminate the requirement for pumps.

marcus

we are nearing completion of our 2500litre still, we will be making whiskey, rum, gin, vodka and fruit brandy the next part to go in is the mezzanine floor this will make access to the valves easy

Sunshine

I love, what you did with the place ;)

TheMechWarrior

Amazing.

Kill_Devil_Spirit_Co

well that should do the trick. nice!

jacksonbrown

Very cool. Will you still need the first RC if the second condensate pump is going?

marcus

the idea of 2 columns gives us the option of running 20 or 40 plates and we will only use 1 condenser depending on how many columns we use

marcus

@Sunshine can you see all the StillDragon bits?