[biofuel] Re: vacuum distillation

2002-02-11 Thread motie_d
Great concept ! I didn't think that the volume of CO2 would be a problem, as its generated reasonably slowly over the period of fermentation - eg the airlock on top of my fermentor steadily bubbles away, its not exactly a huge flowrate. I was thinking though of the problem of running

[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.