Ben Capdevielle Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Hello and greetings from Seattle! My name is Ben Capdevielle and I am co-founder and distiller at Captive Spirits. We are right in the middle of our DSP permitting. I am looking for some advice on a large diameter natural gas burner to fire our 120 gallon Vendome pot. I need about 150K BTUs. I am also needing to find out how to ignite the burner. We are required to have interlocks that shut down the gas supply if our condenser or vent fan stop working. If anyone out there has any advice on these subjects Captive Spirits would sure be happy to hear it. Cheers, Ben Capdevielle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenstone Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Ben, I can help you with this. Come by or give me a call. Steven Sound Spirits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip Tate Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Hello and greetings from Seattle! My name is Ben Capdevielle and I am co-founder and distiller at Captive Spirits. We are right in the middle of our DSP permitting. I am looking for some advice on a large diameter natural gas burner to fire our 120 gallon Vendome pot. I need about 150K BTUs. I am also needing to find out how to ignite the burner. We are required to have interlocks that shut down the gas supply if our condenser or vent fan stop working. If anyone out there has any advice on these subjects Captive Spirits would sure be happy to hear it. Cheers, Ben Capdevielle Take a look at Ward Burner's site (wardburner.com). You need a rectified burner system. CT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedd Haas Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 Once again, a gold-mine response from Chip! Ben, please post some followup on the equipment you buy and how you set it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Capdevielle Posted July 10, 2011 Author Share Posted July 10, 2011 Thanks Steven! What nights will you be around this week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Capdevielle Posted July 10, 2011 Author Share Posted July 10, 2011 Will do Jedd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Morgan Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 The only advice I can add is to make sure the gas control train you buy, has an OPTICAL flame out detector. I have had a lot of trouble with the ionizing types. rich.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Capdevielle Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Thanks everyone! I'm going to check out Sound Spirits set up in town here, again I will let everyone know how we end up setting this system up. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Good deal, Ben. I'm curious to hear the result of your research, and I thank you in advance for posting your findings. I'm looking into a similar setup for a 140 gallon pot still. I've been trying to sort out potential delivery pressure with my gas company to determine an appropriate 300k btu burner for my set up. It's looking like I'll be into it for around 1-2k dollars -- which is a bit more than I expected for a burner (but hey... what doesn't cost more than expected?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluestar Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Interested in learning details of your planned set up, or even what Sound Spirits has put together. Please post here, or drop a message ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 I'll second Chip's advice to call Ward, I took it and am very glad I did. Mark Ward knows what he's talking about and after a couple of conversations with him I think a take away for this thread is that these systems really depend on a lot of variables unique to each installation and require a little custom design. The gas pressure you'll have at your burner (not to your building) will drive the size of your burner, intensity of flame, and determine all the controls. Do you want full electronic control or are you going to manually light, if so how manual? Long lighter? You need to think about combustion air, venting the burner, how much clearance you have. There's a lot to consider and Mark was very helpful getting it all figured out. I don't think their website shows them but they sell impinged flame jet burners and their prices are pretty reasonable when all is said and done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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