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Production drawings of distiller equipment for liquor brewing

Distiller is divided into two parts, one part is still pot and the other part is condenser. The role of the distillation pot is to heat the original wine into steam, and the role of the condenser is to condense the steam into liquid wine. The principle of distillation is that the boiling point of alcohol is lower than that of water, and the higher the alcohol content in mixed wine, the lower its boiling point. Therefore, in the heating process, alcohol first evaporates into the condenser through the sealed pipeline, and the steam condenses to form wine, thus separating the concentrated alcohol. The whole pot body is made of copper, which has several uses: first, copper has good thermal conductivity; second, copper is a catalyst for some esterification reactions; third, copper has good resistance to the acidity of the original wine; and fourth, copper can precipitate butyric acid, caproic acid, capric acid and lauric acid by forming insoluble copper salts, thus removing these unpleasant acids. The copper plate should be made of pure electrolytic copper, and the copper plate should be planed to make the holes in the metal dense, so that the surface of the pot body is smoother and easier to clean. The pot body is a round pot, and the bottom of the pot should protrude inward to facilitate emptying. Because it is directly heated by fire, the bottom of the pot should have a certain thickness. The fermented wine can be distilled for about 45-55 degrees for the first time, 70-80 degrees for the second time and above 90 degrees for the third time.