{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"43369632","dateCreated":"1317316292","smartDate":"Sep 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"CoachLite","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/CoachLite","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":true,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/eo-204-distillation-refining.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/43369632"},"dateDigested":1532653266,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Still","description":"Now that you have an understanding of how distillation works. I want you to post an idea or ideas that you may have on how to improve our still. You must also comment on at least two other ideas from your classmates.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"43370484","body":"My idea is to make the cracking column taller and possibly put smaller marbles in it to increase surface area.","dateCreated":"1317317014","smartDate":"Sep 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"nickrulessohard","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nickrulessohard","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"43370528","body":"I think that if we make our distillation tower a little taller with more packing. i think we could get the still to produce a more pure substance.","dateCreated":"1317317057","smartDate":"Sep 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"exeyj","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/exeyj","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"43371248","body":"We could also make put a reflux line in to catch what water makes it through the cracking tower and return it to the pot.","dateCreated":"1317317546","smartDate":"Sep 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"nickrulessohard","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nickrulessohard","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"43372146","body":"We NEED to repack the Distillation Column with Raschig Rings!  Check this out...<br \/>\nRaschig rings are pieces of tube used in large numbers as a packed bed within columns for distillations and other chemical engineering processes. They are usually ceramic or metal and provide a large surface area within the volume of the column for interaction between liquid and gas or vapour.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThey form what is now known as random packing, and enabled Raschig to perform distillations of much greater efficiency than his competitors using fractional distillation columns with trays.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThey are ALSO NEUTRON ABSORBERS!  Which should make the mixture safer!","dateCreated":"1317318109","smartDate":"Sep 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jamierulessohard","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jamierulessohard","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"43372220","body":"Also nick, we would keep the heat down if the return line was used as coolant, like the reflux system in actual plants.","dateCreated":"1317318173","smartDate":"Sep 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jamierulessohard","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jamierulessohard","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"43372298","body":"We could make the fermenter out copper because copper has over four times the thermal conductivity of it's closest rival, stainless steel. It also has a good reputation for removing toxins because of it's natural acidic nature. So then it would be able to keep the mash warmer for a longer period of time","dateCreated":"1317318240","smartDate":"Sep 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"TylerHamann12","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/TylerHamann12","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"43372438","body":"How could we use it as coolant? It would be hot because its at the top of the cracking tower and will have just condensed from steam so it wouldn't be a very good coolant.","dateCreated":"1317318321","smartDate":"Sep 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"nickrulessohard","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nickrulessohard","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"43378370","body":"By adding the Raschig rings to the available volume (4.8 L ) of the tower instead of marbles, we can increased the surface area collection by at least 25% from the inside of the rings alone, not to mention that all will leave much less dead space like spheres do...but enough to allow the gas to pass through","dateCreated":"1317323670","smartDate":"Sep 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jamierulessohard","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jamierulessohard","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"43781230","body":"Jolly Saint Nick, it is cooled because it goes through a coil cooling the hot to cold...just like a radiator.","dateCreated":"1317916094","smartDate":"Oct 6, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jamierulessohard","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jamierulessohard","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"43784008","body":"The product is cooled Jamie, not the reflux. The reflux is just the excess water that makes it through the cracking column drained back from the top of the cracking column.","dateCreated":"1317918684","smartDate":"Oct 6, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"nickrulessohard","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/nickrulessohard","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"43784580","body":"Using the REFLUX water NICK, we can use that EXCESS to cool spots that need to be colder","dateCreated":"1317919135","smartDate":"Oct 6, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jamierulessohard","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jamierulessohard","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"43786700","body":"<!-- ws:start:WikiTextUrlRule:2:http:\/\/www.home-distilling.com\/store\/pc\/Ceramic-Raschig-Rings-1L-40p332.htm --><a class=\"wiki_link_ext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.home-distilling.com\/store\/pc\/Ceramic-Raschig-Rings-1L-40p332.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.home-distilling.com\/store\/pc\/Ceramic-Raschig-Rings-1L-40p332.htm<\/a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextUrlRule:2 --><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRaschig Rings-4 bags needed!","dateCreated":"1317920786","smartDate":"Oct 6, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jamierulessohard","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jamierulessohard","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":1}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}