What 340 liters / hour going into a falling film looks like

Video is from a customer’s lab I visited this week of our falling film’s intake of ethanol tincture after it has gone through the final 100 mesh inline filter. The sight glass is to verify the tincture’s clarity before evaporation, separating the tincture into clean ethanol and crude oil. This customer says they are achieving 340 liter / hour (90 gallons) using a 60kW water heater to drive primary evaporation (and a 14 ton chiller for cooling).

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That’s bananas show us how to build em @Recursive let’s goooooo!

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Insane throughput. Awesome stuff!

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Is it one stage or dual stage? What is ethanol recovery rate?

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this is 340litres/hour of filtration.

let’s see some output.

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Straight to the money shot, no foreplay

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That’s a lot of evaporation! It sounds like they need some membranes. We are recovering 115-165 GPH but only evaporate about 15. It’s so energy efficient that when we shut it down over the weekend, it is recovering 50 GPH in standby.

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Per your request, here is the output…

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let us see the crude out too! :slight_smile:

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Recovery rate is 80+ gph of ethanol, the remainder is crude oil for a total processing rate of 90 gph per this customer. Rate of crude output depends on saturation level of the ethanol going into the unit. This is a dual stage unit; here’s a picture…

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