New Zealand Distillation equipment

Amphora Society make this video available on their site. This is an Auckland engineer who saw it coming and went to work. I can't seem to get it to embed into this post, but maybe Rimu can help with that.

From the site:

The Amphora Society is designing a fuel ethanol still capable of producing 40-50 gallons of fuel ethanol a day. Fed with regular fermented wash the first prototype, shown here, delivered 95% abv fuel fuel ethanol in a steady stream, stopping during tests only when we ran out of fermented wash to feed it!

Being designed with farmers in mind, we are aiming for a still that will run continuously 24 hours around the clock, requiring periodical cleaning only if the fermented wash contains a lot of suspended solids. All that will be needed is a steady supply of fermented wash, prepared from grain or any other fermentable biomass, It should therefore be capable of operating with a wide variety of washes, including those most difficult ones that tend to foam. It should also be easy to disassemble for cleaning in a matter of minutes, and then quickly put back together again.

Development is being carried out in New Zealand, and no less than 12 different prototypes have been made so far to incorporate design improvements revealed during testing. The latest design looks very different to the first prototype we made, and which is shown here, and we're happy to report that it is very much more efficient.

http://www.amphora-society.com/news.html