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Thank you for all the good info, I thought it sounded a little off.

There is a pretty decent book out there called "The Alcohol Textbook".....: http://www.ethanoltech.com/education/alcohol_textbook.html.....it is a little pricey but I would bet someone has scanned it on a home distillery site some where. Sieve plates, process flow and what not.....looks to me like you are considering a continuous system....another book from a fuel perspective is http://www.permaculture.com/book_menu/360/277 "Alcohol can be a Gas"....there is also the perennial favorite of mine, from ADI member Ian Smiley: Making Pure Corn Whiskey: A Professional Guide For Amateur And Micro Distillers [Paperback]

Best,

Brian

Thank you for the advice I did find this book and am looking forward to reading it

I found it on www.scribd.com, they have tons of stuff you can read or download

I was talking to a guy And he was saying something about using two condensers, a first one for the beginning of the run, and then switch to a second to avoid fouling. It didn't make much sense to me so I thought I would ask and see if anyone had encountered anything like this.

We have two 15ft by 5ft jacket sleeve condensers. The new product being feed would come from a stripping still where the heads will be removed first. The column will be 10ft by 6in. the pic was just meant as a basic idea. We have one 150G tank and one 500G tank i'm trying to find out an efficient way to put the together. We only have a 15ft ceiling to work with.

Has anyone ever heard of using two different condensers to distill a molasses wash?

I was wondering if anyone has ever heard of the reflux column being placed to the side of the boiler instead of the top.

Here's a visualization to give an idea of what I'm talking about.

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x242/gul_duaach/stillsetup.jpg