ALCOHOL PRODUCTION PLANT Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: alcohol production. SUBSTANCE: plant contains: still-evaporator connected with a set of columns formed by vertical pipes disposed in casing and fastened below in the openings of bearing plate located in the bottom part of casing; dephlegmator chamber formed by upper parts of pipes and upper and lower horizontal plate partitions with holes into which the pipes are inserted; and cooling system connected through corresponding connecting pipes to dephlegmator chamber. Upper opened ends of pipes communicate with outlet chamber of casing connected with outlet pipe of the plant. Under bearing plate and over upper plate partition, first and second shield grids are placed, respectively. Pipes and space between bearing plate and the first shield grid are filled by spiral-prismatic charge, and intertubular space from bearing plate to lower plate partition is filled by a heat-insulation material. EFFECT: introduced. 4 cl, 2 dwg