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The current trend is the use of alcohol as fuel additive.5% to 10% alcohol can be added to the fuel without the engine requiring readjustment.There are numerous advantages for using alcohol:
Octane enhancer MTBE can be replaced
The CO emission of the engine is reduced
The dependence on imported crude oil can be reduced
The net CO2 is reduced
GEA Wiegand offers complete alcohol processing lines.Our engineers design systems for the treatment of raw material, fermentation and distillation. The crucial components are manufactured in our own manufacturing workshops under the most stringent quality control.
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Water soluble solvents and multiple solvent mixtures may need to be separated from the water and/or separated into their individual components prior to reuse. MEGTEC offers complete extractive and azeotropic multi-component distillation systems for the separation and purification of solvents mixtures. Depending on customer and process requirements, these systems can be designed for either continuous or batch operations.
MEGTEC distillation systems are the preferred choice by customers in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and other specialty industries around the world for recovery, recycle, and reuse of solvents for applications ranging from solvent mixtures to solvent contaminated wastewater.
A range of distillation capabilities can be provided to include:
Extraction columns
Solvent/solvent separation
Solvent/water separation
Steam stripping systems/columns
Stripping/rectification columns
Vacuum columns
Adsorption systems
Wastewater treatment
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The chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries and also the field of environmental technology all use and handle a wide range of solvents and volatile compounds in quite differing ways.
Whether concentrating, cleaning or recovering, working with these solvents requires a high level of practical experience and a theoretical understanding of the chemical engineering principles underlying the processes of evaporation, stripping and rectification.
GEA Wiegand employs the latest computer programs and up-to-date data bases in its design and planning, thereby simulating the plants in operation and achieving the best layout.
Our Research and Development Center is on hand should knowledge of particular product characteristics which are crucial to the design be lacking. This also enables complex plant systems to be designed and optimum operating conditions to be established when handling less familiar materials or material compounds.
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GEA Wiegand offers complete alcohol processing lines. These include secondary or additional production stages, such as the production of wheat gluten or the reaction forming alcohol derivatives. Our engineers design systems for the treatment of raw material, fermentation, distillation and processing of stillage up to drying systems that are equipped with modern energy-saving steam dryers. The crucial components are manufactured in our own manufacturing workshops under the most stringent quality control.
Areas of application
purification of raw alcohol for the production of neutral and fine grade alcohol
dehydration of alcohol
production of drinking alcohol from raw materials containing sugar and starch
processing of alcohol into alcohol derivatives such as acetaldehyde, acetic acid, ethyl acetate etc.
combination of alcohol lines with plants for the production of baker%u2019s yeast, gluten, glucose etc.
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STILL FROM CHARENTE
This device for the distillation of alcohol is built of copper and bronze. Some parts of the still, less important for the quality of the cognac or brandy, can be built in stainless steel for practical reasons (for example, valves, pipes, condenser).
However, copper remains the most efficient metal to manufacture stills. Copper offers the following advantages: it is malleable; good heat conductor; resistant on fire and wine corrosion. It reacts on certain wine components such as the components of sulphide and the fatty-acids, (this property is favourable for the quality of brandy or cognac): and it is a suitable reactions catalyst between the wine components.
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