A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products

"SEC. 58. Alcohol de-natured by use of methyl alcohol and benzine as provided in section 26 of these regulations is to be classed as _completely de-natured alcohol_. Alcohol de-...

_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled_, That from and after January first, nineteen hundred and seven,...

Alcohol may be produced either from, (1) farinacious materials, such as potatoes or grains, (2), from sacchariferous substances such as grapes, sugar beets, sugar cane, or the m...

=Cultivation.= The beetroot (_Beta vulgaris_), indigenous to Europe, is cultivated in France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Scandinavia, Austria, Russia, and to a very small extent...

=The Apparatus= employed in the process of distillation is called a _still_, and is of almost infinite variety. A still may be any vessel which will hold and permit fermentated...

Boiled Greases; Engine Greases. APPENDIX.--The Action of Oils on Various Metals. Index. TABLES: I.--Viscosity and Specific Gravity. II.--Atomic Weights. III.--Origin, Tests, Etc...

When we look at the manufactories of to-day with their complicated machinery, their extensive equipment, their great boilers, and engines and their hundreds of employees, we are...

The product of the distillation of alcoholic liquors, which is termed _low wine_, does not usually contain alcohol in sufficient quantity to admit of its being employed for dire...

In certain countries, as for instance Germany and France, potatoes form the greatest source of alcohol, particularly for industrial purposes. With the possible exception of corn...

Alcoholmetry is the name given to a variety of methods of determining the quantity of absolute alcohol contained in spirituous liquors. It will readily be seen that a quick and...

The uses of alcohol are very numerous and varied, the principal being, of course, for the production of all alcoholic liquors such as brandy, gin, rum, whiskey, liquors, etc.; t...

In the previous chapter we have given a description of small, simple stills, such as were used until late years, and which are yet used in many localities where distilling is ca...

=Grinding.= Where cookers or the Henze steamers are not used every form of grain should be crushed or ground into a coarse flour. This is in order that the starchy interior may...

Another common source of alcohol is molasses. Molasses is the uncrystallizable syrup which constitutes the residiuum of the manufacture and refining of cane and beet sugar. It i...

Wheat, oats, rye, potatoes, and other amalyceous or starchy materials contain starch insoluble in water and to render it soluble, and to change the starch to maltose they must b...

It is the most important member of an important series of organic compounds, all of which resemble each other closely, and possess many analogous properties. They are classed by...

All cereals contain an abundance of starchy substance which under the influence of diastase,--that is, malt,--is converted into fermentible sugar. The quantity of sugar and henc...

Unit of Heat; Mechanical Equivalent; Application of Heat to Bodies; Second Law of Thermodynamics; Specific Heat; Absolute Temperature; Application of Heat to a Perfect Gas; Isot...

Simple apparatus. Elaborate plants. Steam stills. The fermenting room. Ventilation. Fermenting vats. Preparatory vats. Arrangement of grain distillery. A small beet distillery....

A synopsis of steps. Mashing starchy materials. Gelatinizing apparatus and processes. Saccharifying. Cooling the mash. Fermentation. Yeast and its preparation. Varieties of ferm...

Hydrometers in general. Proof spirit. Syke's hydrometer. Gay-Lussac's hydrometer. Tralles alcoholometer. Hydrometric methods. Estimation of alcohol. Field's alcoholometer. Grisl...

Relative yields of various cereals. Choice of grain. Proportions of starch, etc., in various grains. Grinding. Steeping. Preparatory mashing. Saccharifying. Treatment of grain u...

Washing. Gelatinizing and saccharifying. Low pressure steaming, and apparatus therefor. Crushing the potatoes. High pressure steaming and apparatus. The vacuum cooker. The Henze...

Beet cultivation. Composition. Soil and manures. Sowing. Harvesting. Storing. Production of alcohol from beets. Cleaning and rasping. Extraction by pressure. Extraction by macer...

Uses of alcohol. De-natured spirit:--Its use in Germany, France and England. The "De-naturing Act." The uses of de-natured alcohol. Methods and FormulÊ for de-naturing. De-natur...