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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 1982
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1980
Boyd R Beck, Spring City, UT (US);
Lamar H Stewart, Gunnison, UT (US);
Steven Tapp, Ephraim, UT (US);
Don L Anderson, Jr, Gunnison, UT (US);
Daniel E Nuffer, Ephraim, UT (US);
Other;
Abstract
An electrically and/or solar heated distillation and fractionation system for separating ethanol-water mixtures comprised with an insulated inclined vaporization chamber divided into an upper solar absorbent vaporization section and a lower pre-heating section by a vaporization floor, float means to automatically control the ethanol-water feed to the lower portion of the preheating section when distillation is taking place, means to evenly distribute the ethanol-water mixture on the vaporization floor, means to heat the ethanol-water mixture in the distillation chamber, a packed fractionation column through which the vapors from the distillation chamber must pass, means to control the temperature at the top of the fractionation column-condensing means to recover and/or recycle distillate exiting to the upper portion of the distillation column and means to remove or recycle residual aqueous liquid from the lower end of the vaporization section.