AndrosGold Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Hi all, I’m in the planning stages of an estate rum distillery. With being an estate distillery, we will have the opportunity to use our bagasse as a fuel source. Do any of you have any insight into why or why not do this? Also, any additional information as to how many BTU/hour/ton you get from your bagasse would be helpful information. I appreciate any response! Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beach Time Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 If you research Cachaca production in Brazil you can get that information, it will be on Portuguese. It has been a long time since I came across it, but it had a lot details will look and see if I have a copy to share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beach Time Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 embrapa is their ag research agency, I'm sure that's where I found that document. https://www.agencia.cnptia.embrapa.br/gestor/cana-de-acucar/arvore/CONTAG01_105_22122006154841.html Short answer is there should be plenty of biomass energy bagasse to fuel a boiler and distill the rum wash produced from said bagasse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodB Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Reach out to Alaskan Brewing Company. They have a biomass boiler they run with their spent grain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegadoOrganicDistillery Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 we use a biomass boiler to run our distillery with our own sugar cane bagasse. We run a 5000 liter and 2000 liter pot still on a 1/2 ton biomass boiler. Works fantastically well. The only thing we have noticed is that we do need to supplment at with wood to get it going or else it takes forever to heat up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Daddy Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 On 9/15/2021 at 11:58 AM, LegadoOrganicDistillery said: we use a biomass boiler to run our distillery with our own sugar cane bagasse. We run a 5000 liter and 2000 liter pot still on a 1/2 ton biomass boiler. Works fantastically well. The only thing we have noticed is that we do need to supplment at with wood to get it going or else it takes forever to heat up That sounds awesome. Do you have some photos you could share of the setup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernhighlander Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 I have vacuum stripping stills that can be fired by wood fired hydronic heating boilers. These boilers are far less expensive than steam boilers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mechengineer_81 Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 On 5/4/2020 at 3:38 PM, RodB said: Reach out to Alaskan Brewing Company. They have a biomass boiler they run with their spent grain. they have a pretty cool system there. I did some work there a couple years back and helped them to do some as built drawings of their facility. cool group there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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