[biofuels-biz] [Distillers] Distillers FAQ

2003-01-04 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
NEW DISTILLERS Frequently Asked Questions (Nov'02) Posted near the 1st of each month, to the NEW_DISTILLERS newsgroup at www.yahoogroups.com Please email any additions, corrections, clarifications required, etc regarding the FAQ to Tony Ackland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), however please direct any

[biofuel] [Distillers] Distillers FAQ

2003-01-04 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
NEW DISTILLERS Frequently Asked Questions (Nov'02) Posted near the 1st of each month, to the NEW_DISTILLERS newsgroup at www.yahoogroups.com Please email any additions, corrections, clarifications required, etc regarding the FAQ to Tony Ackland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), however please direct any

[biofuel] New Distillers FAQ

2002-11-13 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
Hmmm I've been a bit slack about getting this out on a regular basis. Any suggestions for additions/changes etc ? ** NEW DISTILLERS Frequently Asked Questions (June'02) Posted near the 1st of each month, to the NEW_DISTILLERS

[biofuel] New Distillers FAQ

2002-08-22 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
NEW DISTILLERS Frequently Asked Questions (June'02) Posted near the 1st of each month, to the NEW_DISTILLERS newsgroup at www.yahoogroups.com Please email any additions, corrections, clarifications required, etc regarding the FAQ to Tony Ackland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), however please direct any

RE: [biofuel] Digest Number 964

2002-05-25 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
Al, Hi I have produced moonshine [()0O] I know that its impossible to 99% alcohole wil a still My question being [at the most you can get anout 94% and not a great deal of that in distilling a batch] what percentage HAS the alcohole to be and what happens when you can reach that purity It

[biofuel] New Distillers FAQ

2002-05-08 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
NEW DISTILLERS Frequently Asked Questions (Sept'01) Posted near the 1st of each month, to the NEW_DISTILLERS newsgroup at www.yahoogroups.com Please email any additions, corrections, clarifications required, etc regarding the FAQ to Tony Ackland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), however please direct any

[biofuel] New Distillers FAQ

2002-03-01 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
NEW DISTILLERS Frequently Asked Questions (Sept'01) Posted near the 1st of each month, to the NEW_DISTILLERS newsgroup at www.yahoogroups.com Please email any additions, corrections, clarifications required, etc regarding the FAQ to Tony Ackland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), however please direct any

[biofuel] Re: Vacuum distillation

2002-02-10 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
Roger, excellent tony just the info that is needed. do you have any thoughts on whether yeast will survive a low vacuum environment? Sorry - no ideas about that one. On the whole though, yeast seems to be quite a hardy wee bugger, and will withstand quite a bit thrown at it. Worth a try.

[biofuel] Vacuum distillation

2002-02-09 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
I have some calculations showing the change in water-ethanol equilibrium as a result of reduced pressure, at http://homedistiller.org/designs.htm#vacuum If you want to play with the calculations themselves, i have a wee spreadsheet : http://homedistiller.org/Theory.xls cheers Tony

[biofuel] [new_distillers] New ethanol discussion board available

2001-10-10 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
As part of relocating my Home Distillation site, Dave has helped set up a discussion board, as an alternative to these ones here at YahooGroups (but it won't have adds ! - you won't be 10 pounds lighter anymore). http://www.homedistiller.org/forums/wwwthreads.php?Cat= Its broken down into the

[biofuel] New Distillers FAQ

2001-10-01 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
NEW DISTILLERS Frequently Asked Questions (Sept'01) Posted near the 1st of each month, to the NEW_DISTILLERS newsgroup at www.yahoogroups.com Please email any additions, corrections, clarifications required, etc regarding the FAQ to Tony Ackland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), however please direct any

[biofuel] Kiwi_Distiller moved

2001-09-28 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
Yep, thanks to Dave I've now moved from Geocities (who were capping the amount of traffic to the site) to : http://www.homedistiller.org All the content is the same, so you'll still feel at home there. We're going to set up some discussion boards too, will let ya know once they're running.

[biofuel] [Distillers] New Distillers FAQ

2001-07-30 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
New Distillers FAQ ** NEW DISTILLERS Frequently Asked Questions (July'01) Posted near the 1st of each month, to the NEW_DISTILLERS newsgroup at www.yahoogroups.com Please email any additions, corrections, clarifications required,

[biofuel] Re: Back to the Zeolite thang....

2001-07-29 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
Now all you need is the 95% ethanol! :-) . -K Ken - see http://www.geocities.com/kiwi_distiller for how to do this Its easy to build a hobby still capable of this, for well under US$150 Tony Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Small business

[biofuel] Re: Still Plans

2001-06-12 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
What size pot and what size column would one need to produce 5 gallons of ethanol per day? It depends on how long you want to spend making that 5 gallons ! eg: my 1380W heating element is well suited to 40 mL/min (0.6 gal/hour), so that would take you about 8.5 hours to run off 5 gallons.

[biofuel] Still plans

2001-05-24 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
Marc, Are you refering to the StillMaker design ? The site for it is http://stillmaker.dreamhost.com I also have a copy of it on my site; http://www.geocities.com/kiwi_distiller/still.pdf I also have other plans for stills, both pot and reflux; see

[biofuel] Continuous still ?

2001-02-18 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
I've been toying with the idea of a continuous still. Applicable to either drinking alcohol or for fuel. A bit of fun for a 20L hobbiest, but probably worth the effort for those doing bigger washes. Once you knew what the balanced flowrates were for your particular setup, it wouldn't take

[biofuel] [new_distillers] New Distillers FAQ

2001-01-07 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
NEW DISTILLERS Frequently Asked Questions (Sept'00) Posted near the 1st of each month, to the NEW_DISTILLERS newsgroup at www.egroups.com Please email any additions, corrections, clarifications required, etc regarding the FAQ to Tony Ackland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), however please direct any

RE: [biofuel] RE: [Distillers] Collecting impurities

2000-06-04 Thread Tony Elle Ackland
Robert, Thanks for the reply. I have a couple of questions/myths that you might help me with... However, the doubler (or thumper, as some people call it) did most of the work of removing the methanol as it was easily flash cooled by the water in the doubler. Perhaps even more important is the