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Status Replies posted by Southernhighlander
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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What do you have for stainless totes? I have one from trans-store and it is nice. Do you have something similar?