Solar apparatus and process
Solar apparatus for producing alcohol including a frame portion, a heating portion, a slurry-forming portion, a fermentation portion, a distillation portion, a condensation portion and a drying portion; the heating portion including a plurality of solar panel members, the slurry-forming portion including a hammer mill and a frustoconical section thereunder, the frustoconical section including a tangential liquid inlet opening and a tangential slurry outlet opening, the fermentation portion including a fermentation chamber, a pump disposed adjacent the chamber, inlet and outlet conduits extending between the pump and the bottom of the chamber, the distillation portion including a base section and a face section, the face section including a conduit having a circuitous path, the condensation portion including a first chamber, a second chamber extending downwardly within the first chamber partway down from the top, a spiral conduit disposed within the first chamber, the drying portion including a solar air heating section, a solids storage, a rotatable cylindrical member horizontally disposed, a liquid collector and a liquid storage. Also, solar heating apparatus, slurry-forming apparatus, fermentation apparatus, solar distillation apparatus, condensation apparatus, solar drying apparatus and a solar process.
- Assignee:
- Entropy Dynamics
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4440861
- OSTI ID:
- 6453260
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ALCOHOLS
BIOCONVERSION
DESIGN
DISPERSIONS
DRYING
EQUIPMENT
EVAPORATORS
FERMENTATION
FUELS
GASOHOL
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
LIQUID FUELS
MIXTURES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PUMPS
SLURRIES
SOLAR DISTILLATION
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR STILLS
SUSPENSIONS
VAPOR CONDENSATION