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Technical Shroomerites: aircooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? * 1
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Guys take a look at this charming little contraption:





Whats done with it, is to ferment rice, grains or sugar in water into a wine and then after filtering and clarifying, distilling the wine into lets say 1/4 of the volume alcohol of whiskey strength.

Now that I got your attention :naughty: listen up!

The hot alcohol rich fumes rise throught the oval column, obviously a packed column, and the fumes enter the second chamber. Through this second chamber, a stainless cooling coil runs.

The coil cools the alcohol vapor, condensing it to liquid, which pours out the long tube into a collection bottle, and presto: The Sake moon shines :smile:

As you see, the second chamber has an inlet and outlet for water cooling tubes. The idea is that you have a tub of water nearby, and an immersion pump pumps this coolant water round and round.

This is not what I intend!

What I intend is to connect the coolant tube to a small air pump, so that not water but air rushes through the cooling coil, cooling it, without need for big tubs of water with spill risks and all that.

So now you in essence have an all foodgrade stainless device standing on a hotplate being cooled by an aquarium or koi pond air pump, both plugged into the same interruptor-secured box.

Neato huh? You could fire it up anywhere you have an AC socket, no need to lug around coolant water in big tubs.


Now the question to the tech inclined Shroomerites!

Vapor is going to enter at 80'C
Air temperature is about 20'C
coil crossection is about 1cm2

What airflow in liter/min would do the trick, you feel?

You're blowing 20'C cool air through a metal coil warmed on the outside by 80'C warm alcohol vapor.

A very good output for the device would be 1-2 liters of liquid whiskey strength (50-60%) alcohol per hour. It might even be tweaked, note the temperature gouges, to get as close to azeotrope as 92%.

How many liters of air per minute would suffice?


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Re: Technical Shroomerites: aircooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: Asante] * 2
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I don’t think air will cool the same as water will something to do with heat being k/cals and water being able to use those k/cals to break its own bond
Sorry I don’t have more of an answer for you
I would think the size of the contraption area you’re trying to cool (volume of it) is what would determine your lpm. and would think you would need to have some sort of conversion equation as to the rate of cooling as this is important to the airflow too
Hopefully there’s some sort of smarty pants on here who can really help


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theRealrollforever said:
That’s not possible; even with computers

Edited by theRealrollforever (12/11/18 12:52 PM)

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Re: Technical Shroomerites: aircooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: theRealrollforever]
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theRealrollforever said:
I don’t think air will cool the same as water will
Sorry I don’t have more of an answer for you
I would think the size of the contraption area you’re trying to cool (volume of it) is what would determine your lpm. and would think you would need to have some sort of conversion equation as to the rate of cooling as this is important to the airflow too
Hopefully there’s some sort of smarty pants on here who can really help



The difference is flow speed, Cool air at greater flow speed will carry increasing amounts of warmth away, and the cooling air is forced through a much warmer metal tube  where a lot of heat transfer will take place, methinx


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Re: Technical Shroomerites: aircooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: Asante] * 1
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Asante said:
theRealrollforever said:
I don’t think air will cool the same as water will
Sorry I don’t have more of an answer for you
I would think the size of the contraption area you’re trying to cool (volume of it) is what would determine your lpm. and would think you would need to have some sort of conversion equation as to the rate of cooling as this is important to the airflow too
Hopefully there’s some sort of smarty pants on here who can really help



The difference is flow speed, Cool air at greater flow speed will carry increasing amounts of warmth away, and the cooling air is forced through a much warmer metal tube  where a lot of heat transfer will take place, methinx

i agree but the maths required are very complex me thinks.  Plus does the device have a baseline for how much water needs to be pumped.  Then work out a conversion to how much air will be equivalent in cooling effect?  Too much sciences for me I stopped after calculus and don’t remember a damn thing


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theRealrollforever said:
That’s not possible; even with computers

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Re: Technical Shroomerites: aircooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: theRealrollforever] * 1
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You would need a hell of a fan/ compressor

Them shits is loud

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Re: Technical Shroomerites: aircooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: Asante] * 2
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It's not the answer you want, but you're not going to get enough airflow through it.  Water has a specific heat four times that of air and a density hundreds of times that of air, depending on temperature, etc.  In any case, the actual volume of air necessary will be over a thousand times the volume of water needed.  Meaning the speed of the air travel will have to be over a thousand times more....assuming you can create that flow and still keep the air at 20 deg., which is probably not possible either.  To get that flow, you will necessarily increase pressure which will increase the temperature of that air.


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Re: Technical Shroomerites: aircooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: Enlil] * 1
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The heat capacity of water is 3,330 times that of air, so good luck with that


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Re: Technical Shroomerites: aircooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: koods] * 1
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He can draw in air from outside, air has water in it.

I think it would work, but at what cost?

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Re: Technical Shroomerites: aircooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: cannabinated] * 1
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I think contamination/ fucking with the flavor becomes a risk with pressure leaks tho

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Re: Technical Shroomerites: aircooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: cannabinated] * 2
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compressed air bro

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Re: Technical Shroomerites: air-cooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: Enlil] * 1
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Yeah, this is not going to work. Just going by the fact that the designers didnt opt for air cooling if that was a real possibility.

If its a Japanese design you can be sure they looked into that


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Re: Technical Shroomerites: aircooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: Enlil]
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Enlil said:
It's not the answer you want, but you're not going to get enough airflow through it.  Water has a specific heat four times that of air and a density hundreds of times that of air, depending on temperature, etc.  In any case, the actual volume of air necessary will be over a thousand times the volume of water needed.  Meaning the speed of the air travel will have to be over a thousand times more....assuming you can create that flow and still keep the air at 20 deg., which is probably not possible either.  To get that flow, you will necessarily increase pressure which will increase the temperature of that air.




Its not what I hoped for but it IS the answer I needed, much thanks!

Cooking dinner I was figuring that air weighs a ballpark 1.25kg/m3 or so so to match the kilos of vapor being condensed, thousands of liters of air need to pass through, and in the documentation it was specified that total runtime would be in the order of 1.5-3 hours.

1000s of liters of air through 1 cm2 - definitely not going to happen. A compressor woluld be needed costing many times that what a simple water pump and trashcan setup could solve, especially since it wont be industrial production, just a lil household :laugh:


Thanks for taking the time!


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Re: Technical Shroomerites: air-cooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: Tripsurfer]
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Tripsurfer said:
Yeah, this is not going to work. Just going by the fact that the designers didnt opt for air cooling if that was a real possibility.

If its a Japanese design you can be sure they looked into that



Its a Chinese design, its specified to be also suitable for coal gas and even a wood fire, its developing nation proof.


Speaking of proof, do y'all realize that


A pound of sugar can be converted into a fifth of vodka


I don't intend heavy consumption, I drink ridiculously little alcohol, I want to use it primarily as a foodgrade solvent for experiments and cleaning (everclear-type 96%/192pr costs 10x as much as DIY here which is a horrid waste if you're not even going to drink it)


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Re: Technical Shroomerites: air-cooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: Tripsurfer]
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Tripsurfer said:
Yeah, this is not going to work. Just going by the fact that the designers didnt opt for air cooling if that was a real possibility.

If its a Japanese design you can be sure they looked into that


Thing is, there are discreet little 1 gal still units that ARE aircooled and if you make a coil stil you dont even have to cool the coil as enough heat radiates off the coil into the open air.




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Re: Technical Shroomerites: air-cooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: Asante]
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koods doesn't know what a fifth is.

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Re: Technical Shroomerites: air-cooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: Crazy_Horse]
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Five fifths is one


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Re: Technical Shroomerites: air-cooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: koods]
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Next problem:

Stainless steel is over 20x less efficient at conducting heat than copper. Those still coils are already gonna struggle to move enough heat away from the condensing surface as is.

Metal  Thermal Conductivity BTU/hr ft °F
Copper 411
Aluminum 164
Admiralty Brass 126
Carbon Steel 56
Stainless Steel 19

Also you aren’t just transfering heat from the gas outside the coil to insidethe coil. You are changing the phase of ethanol and water on that surface. The amount of energy released in condensation is tremendous. Without doing the rather complicated math, you would likely need to push air through those coils at multiple times the speed of sound (if it works at all. This may be thermodynamically impossible and most of your ethanol will leave the condenser uncondensed)


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NotSheekle said
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Edited by koods (12/11/18 04:08 PM)

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Re: Technical Shroomerites: air-cooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: koods]
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koods said:
Five fifths is one


one what?

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Re: Technical Shroomerites: air-cooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: koods]
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yeah nobody makes still coils out of stainless that i've ever seen.  copper inside of a stainless column?  maybe, but not a stainless coil.  hell, the super precise fractionating still i used to run had a Cu column and coil on top of a stainless pot.

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Re: Technical Shroomerites: air-cooling a water cooled Sake still - how much airflow? [Re: relic]
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Ive used a glass column to distill alcohol before and you have to put a liter of water through it a minute to make sure you’re not losing any of the goodies.


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