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  1. on a 100 gallon affordable distillery still, how many gallons of oil would it take to fill up the baine marie portion of the water jacket. possibly thinking about switching from water to oil,any advice.

     

    1. Southernhighlander

      Southernhighlander

      The cooking oil generally just needs changing once per year.  There are oils like dowtherm but I don't recommend them.

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  2. on a 100 gallon affordable distillery still, how many gallons of oil would it take to fill up the baine marie portion of the water jacket. possibly thinking about switching from water to oil,any advice.

     

  3. I have a 500L Bain Marie run with oil, heated by 4x8kW elements.I have had the following issue in the last week;  I started up slowly as usual, but although the dome of the still does warm up, it takes about 2.5hours, where it usually takes 1.5 hours. It seems as though the heat transfer up to the fill level is not sufficient. The product flow is also extremely low. The oil makes a loud boiling noise- also something that has not happened before, and I would not like to turn the heat up and degrade the oil. I use Atonal 324 oil and replaced the old oil before starting distilling this week. Nothing else has changed from when I ran the still in the beginning of the year. My still is not equipped with  a thermometer in the oil jacket. Can it be that the oil jacket has fouled up so much that it is not conducting heat as it should?

    Can you please advise?

    1. Southernhighlander

      Southernhighlander

      Biodiesal is the best way to go if you want to go cheap.  How many btus of heat are you putting into it and how many gallons of oil?

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  4. I have a 500L Bain Marie run with oil, heated by 4x8kW elements.I have had the following issue in the last week;  I started up slowly as usual, but although the dome of the still does warm up, it takes about 2.5hours, where it usually takes 1.5 hours. It seems as though the heat transfer up to the fill level is not sufficient. The product flow is also extremely low. The oil makes a loud boiling noise- also something that has not happened before, and I would not like to turn the heat up and degrade the oil. I use Atonal 324 oil and replaced the old oil before starting distilling this week. Nothing else has changed from when I ran the still in the beginning of the year. My still is not equipped with  a thermometer in the oil jacket. Can it be that the oil jacket has fouled up so much that it is not conducting heat as it should?

    Can you please advise?

    1. Southernhighlander

      Southernhighlander

      Have you inspected the oil?  You have no way of knowing how hot that the oil has gotton?  Do you have the specs for the oil?

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  5. What do you have for stainless totes? I have one from trans-store and it is nice. Do you have something similar?

    1. Southernhighlander

      Southernhighlander

      We are transtore vendors.  We have 250, 350, 550 and 750 gallon trasnstore totes that are new.  i don't currently have any used ones.  What size are you looking for?

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