Run ethanol in a slightly modified closed loop?

@Boomtownpharms doesn’t have one.

Purchasing one to process 55gal doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Maybe you haven’t seen his plumbing skills?

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I call this one the Retro-vap.

Using a cold trap with an added spool as an evaporator (heated bath on other side of door).

Blowing solvent off to atmosphere with the aid of a TRS-21. Because I didn’t have a crockpot on hand…

Because: instrumentation!

admittedly I did cobble together a rotovap for the next (and subsequent) batches. this was merely an exercise in “solve it with what you got!”…and these were kicking around under my desk.

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