The Best Small-Scale Alcohol Distillation Setup
Finding the Perfect Small-Scale Alcohol Distillation Setup
Anyone interested in distilling water, fuel alcohol (where applicable) or moonshine/alcohol will have numerous choices of smaller scale distillery equipment that will meet their goals for producing consistent, efficient and safe production processes. Investing in quality equipment ensures your production will run efficiently while meeting all required legal guidelines.
Distillation plants come in various shapes and sizes, but the three most essential considerations when designing one should be safety, process efficiency and the long-term availability of raw materials and power sources for operation. When searching for manufacturers with significant experience and excellent track records in this industry, take care to establish your goals and constraints prior to selecting any particular design of plant.
An ideal distillation column design maximizes surface area for condensing alcohol vapor while simultaneously minimizing stagnate flow sections of beer liquid that aren’t being distilled. To do this effectively, each tray must feature free ends of downcomer pipes immersed into liquid levels on plates below; this ensures that vapor and liquid remain in contact throughout the column.
Atmospheric pressure at the bottom of a column plays an important role in decreasing evaporation rate and increasing condensation, making it harder to achieve desired alcohol vapor concentration while incurring higher energy costs for heating the reboiler.