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Denatured (and) Industrial Alcohol $29.95

Every Single Way of Making Alcohol on an Industrial Scale—or small scale.  516 Pages of knowledge that covers fermentation, the organisms, source material, mashes, crops to use, yield, formulas, distillation, byproducts, heat measurement, usage in engines and much more.  The book covers the usage of alcohol for cooking, heating and illumination, just to name a few.  It even has details on converting sawdust and other organic material to a form that can be digested by alcohol yeasts to make ETHYL Alcohol.  Yes!—Ethanol from sawdust, dead trees, newspaper, cellulose etc…  Making alcohol will be an important part of a hydrogen generation system that Roy McAlister and I will be detailing in a future DVD.  You will be able to make H2 from alcohol that is made to hydrogen boost turbines or methane.  With this book, we made alcohol, distilled it and burned it in 7 days!  NO, it is not illegal.  It is illegal in most places to distill alcohol for human consumption.  You do NOT drink DE-natured alcohol. If you are going to seriously distill alcohol, it is easy to get a still permit from the ATF.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Denatured and Industrial Alcohol



“A TREATISE ON THE HISTORY, MANUFACTURE, COMPOSITION, USES, AND POSSIBILITIES OF INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL IN THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES PERMITTING ITS USE,AND THE LAWS AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE SAME, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES. WITH CONCISE TABLES, METHODS, AND NOTES FOR THE USE OF THE ENGINEER, CHEMIST, MANUFACTURERS OF ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOL MAKING AND USING APPARATUS, INCLUDING ALCOHOL MOTORS, ENGINES, ILLUMINATING LAMPS, AND HEATING AND COOKING STOVES”

THE enactment of legislation by Congress on June 7, 1906 (per­mitting the general use of tax-free domestic alcohol, after it has been suitably denatured, for industrial purposes and for light, heat, and power) immediately created a wide-spread interest and inquiry through­out the United States as to the facts relating to the whole matter.

The scarcity of literature treating the subject of Denatured or Industrial Alcohol was so great that there were practically no books con­cerning it. This book was therefore prepared. The author had the honor to represent the American Chemical Society and the Society of Chemical Industry, through their New Eng­land sections, in favor of Denatured Alcohol, at the so-called "Free Alcohol" Congressional hearings, held in Washington, D. C., February–March, 1896, on the matter of repealing the internal-revenue tax on domestic alcohol after it had been suitably denatured. The testimony given at these hearings was from a great variety of sources and possessed a highly educational value and interesting character, many important abstracts from such testimony are given in this book under their appropriate subjects.

There is also a very complete list, on page 494, from the Patent Review, New York, of all the important patents relating to improve­ments in the manufacture of alcohol and in alcohol-distilling apparatus for the twenty years prior to the books original publication.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

CHAPTER ONE: COMPOSITION, HISTORY, AND USE OF DENATURED ALCOHOL

 

Composition of Denatured Alcohol in Foreign Countries


Distilled Spirits Defined


History of Denatured Alcohol in Foreign Countries


History of Tax-free Alcohol in the United States


Use of Denatured or Industrial Alcohol in Foreign Countries


Use of Industrial Alcohol in Cuba


Use of Industrial Alcohol in the United States


 

 

 

CHAPTER TWO: THE MANUFACTURE OF ALCOHOL

 

The Raw Materials Used


The Preparation of the Raw Materials for Fermentation


The Composition of the Raw Materials Used


Malting


The Fermentation


Theoretical versus Practical Yields of Alcohol


 

 

 

 

The author defines fermentation as the change induced in organic matter through the agency, direct or indirect, of micro-organisms or their enzymes. The fermenting-vats used vary in size according to circumstances. In Fig. 14, page 34, is shown the improved manner of operating the valve in the bottom, which discharges the mash.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Micro-organisms


The Use of Moulds in Saccharification


The Fermentation Period


Wild and "Disease" Yeasts


The Control of the Fermentation Operations


(a)    The Control of the Yeast


(b)    The Estimation of the Fermentable Matter


(c)    The Estimation of the Yield in Alcohol from the Fermented Mash

 


To prepare absolute alcohol, quicklime, anhydrous copper sulphate, and metallic sodium are employed. For the distillation, in determining the amount of alcohol formed in a fermentation at least a half-liter should be used, and larger amounts, up to 2 or 3 liters, are probably preferable.
The distillation is carried out in a glass or metal flask, and the alcoholic vapors are condensed in a tube, or worm, surrounded by cold running water, and collected in a receiver. A German laboratory apparatus for this purpose is shown in Fig. 18. A specially made small alcohol hydrometer and jar is shown at the left of this cut. The heat is sup­plied by burning denatured alcohol.

Practically all the alcohol will be contained in an amount of the distillate equal to two fifths of the alcoholic solution taken. This is then accurately made up to the original volume and the specific gravity determined by the pycnometer.

 

 

 

 

The Conditions Favorable to Alcoholic Fermentation

 

 

CHAPTER III. THE DISTILLATION AND RECTIFICATION OF ALCOHOL

 

Theory of Vapor Pressure and Boiling-point


Boiling-points of Mixtures of Ethyl and Methyl Alcohol


Boiling-points of Mixtures of Ethyl Alcohol and Water


Theory of Distillation


Simple Distillation


Constant Boiling Mixtures


Theory of Fractional Distillation

 

 


 

 

Fig. 18 shows an apparatus that consists of a glass flask (or a retort) in which a liquid or liquid mixture is boiled and the condenser into which the vapor thus formed is con­ducted and by which it is recondensed, the distillate being collected in the receiving-flask.

This form of condenser consists of two tubes between which a current of cold water flows in an upward direction or opposite to the flow of the distillate. The inner tube of this condenser as well as the outer is some­times made of glass and in some instances of metal.

 

 

 

 

Theory of Compound Distillation


Dephlegmation


The Efficiency of Fractional Distillation


The Extraction of the Alcohol by Distillation


The Rectification of the Alcohol


History of the Distillation of Alcohol


Commercial Apparatus for the Distillation of Alcohol


American Alcohol-distilling Apparatus


 

 

 

CHAPTER FOUR: ALCOHOLOMETRY

 

The Determination of Alcohol by the Alcoholometer


The Determination of Alcohol by Distillation


The Alcohol Tables Adopted by the A. 0. A. C.


The U. S. Proof Gallon, Wine Gallon, and Taxable Gallon


The U. S. Alcohol Tables for the Control of Denatured Alcohol

 


 

 

 

 

In testing spirits for their alco­holic strength in per cents of proof by tables given on pages 143-145, a gauger's cup, shown in Fig. 62, p. 142, and alcohol hydrometers, shown in Fig. 61, p. 142, are used. Proof or 100 will be indicated on the hydrometer when the tem­perature of the spirit is at 60° F. Tables for correction of temperature when it varies from 60° F. are supplied in this manual.

The gauger's cup is filled with the spirit to be tested according to the directions in this manual, and the hydrometer is carefully placed therein and the degree or per cent proof is read from the scale on the stem at the surface of the spirits according to these published directions. A complete set of five stems according to the Standard of the U. S. Internal Revenue is shown in Fig. 61, ranging from water marked 0 to absolute alcohol marked 200.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Detection and Determination of Ethyl and Methyl Alcohols in Mixtures by the Immersion Refractometer


The Determination of Methyl Alcohol in Denatured Alcohol by the Immersion Refractometer


Tests for the Detection of Acetone, Methyl Alcohol, and Ethyl Alcohol


The Denatured Alcohol Motor for Laboratory Power Purposes


 

 

CHAPTER FIVE: THE COST OF ALCOHOL AND OF ALCOHOL-DISTILLING PLANTS

 

Cost of Alcohol from Different Raw Materials


By-products in the Distillation of Alcohol


Fusel-oil


The Composition of Fusel-oil


The Value of the Slop or Spent Wash


The Manufacture of Ethyl Alcohol from Sawdust


Ethyl Chloride as a Refrigerant


Plan of Distillery for Distilling Alcohol from Corn


Cost of Buildings for Alcohol-distilling Plants


Cost of Alcohol-distilling Plants


Cost of Commercial Wood Alcohol (Methyl Alcohol)


The Determination of Alcohol by the Alcoholometer


 

 

 

 

Combo Deal - Denatured or Industrial Alcohol and Handbook of Homemade Power $44.95

 

The Incandescent Mantle for the Alcohol Lamp


The Incandescent Alcohol Lamp


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In describing the Phoebus Incandescent Alcohol Lamp, of which a cut is shown in Fig. 90, it may be said that the manipulation of this lamp is practically the same as those heretofore described in this chapter. The lamp is lighted at A by a match. It is extinguished by closing the screw vapor-valve B. In filling the lamp the alcohol is put in at the orifice C. D is the regulator. For a table lamp for reading purposes a shade is placed upon the support E. The small rubber bulb shown, when compressed, forces a little alcohol into the lighting chamber A. This bulb is readily detachable, being provided with a metallic connection. The lamp is here shown without the base in order to show the details. Any design and material is supplied for the base by the manufacturers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Alcohol Illuminated-sign Lamp


The German Incandescent Alcohol Street Lights


Cost of Lighting by Kerosene


The Incandescent Welsbach Gas Light


Acetylene as a Source of Illumination


The Electric Incandescent and Arc Light


Alcohol Compared to other Sources of Illumination

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE FUEL VALUE OF ALCOHOL COMPARED WITH THE OTHER USUAL LIQUID FUELS

 

The Williams Bomb Calorimeter


The Thermal Efficiency of a Fuel


The Fuel Value of Denatured Alcohol


Calculations of the Volume of Air Necessary for Complete Combustion of Alcohol, Gasoline, Kerosene, and Crude Petroleum


Ratio of Prices of Various Fuels


Ratio of Vitiation of the Atmosphere by Combustion of these Fuels


Table of the Calorific Value of the Usual Liquid Fuels


Alcohol Heating and Cooking Apparatus and Stoves

 

 



 

CHAPTER EIGHT: ALCOHOL AS A SOURCE OF POWER

 

The Deutz Alcohol-engine

 

 

 

Shown in Fig. 137, p. 275, is an illustration of the Deutz alcohol engine, type E-12, of 20 horse-power. The original Otto or Deutz engines were built in Germany for a period of about forty years, the Otto engines types E-10, M-10, and E-12 were single-acting explosive engines. The cylinder being closed at one end, a mix­ture of air and gasoline, kercsene or alcohol vapor was exploded in the cylinder, the resulting pressure moved a piston which transmitted power through the connecting-rod and crank to the fly-wheel shaft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Deutz Alcohol-motor or Portable Engine


American Alcohol-engines


The Alcohol-motor for the Automobile


The Diesel Engine


The Kerosene-oil Engine


The Gasoline-engine and its Adaptation to Alcohol


Comparison of the Economy of the Steam-engine with Other Types of Engines


The Gas-engine Compared with Other Types of Engines


Outline of the Methods Used in Testing Internal-combustion Engines


CHAPTER NINE: LAWS AND REGULATIONS FOR DENATURED ALCOHOL



In Foreign Countries


Law for Denatured Alcohol in the United States


Cost of Denaturing Alcohol in Foreign Countries


Cost of Denaturing Alcohol in the United States


Properties of Denaturing Materials 


Special Denaturing Methods in Foreign Countries


Tests Prescribed by Foreign Countries for the Denaturing Materials Used


Tests Prescribed by the United States for the Denaturing Materials Used


Completely Denatured Alcohol and Specially Denatured Alcohol in the United States


Recovery of Denatured Alcohol is Permitted by the United States Regulations


Spirit Varnishes

 

CHAPTER TEN: DENATURED ALCOHOL IN THE UNITED STATES

 

The Impracticability of Purifying Denatured Alcohol


The Possibilities of Industrial Alcohol in the United States

 

 


APPENDIX

 

THE UNITED STATES REGULATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE DENATURATION OF ALCOHOL AND THE HANDLING AND USE OF SAME UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF JUNE 7, 1906


AMENDMENTS TO THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF JUNE 7, 1906


REPORT OF THE BRITISH DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL, PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY, MARCH 23d, 1905


APPENDICES FROM MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE BRITISH DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL, PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY


ABSTRACT FROM BRITISH REVENUE ACT, 1906, as TO SPIRITS USED IN ART, MANUFACTURE, ETC., AND SUPPLEMENTAL AMENDMENTS OF THE SPIRITS ACT


BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DENATURED ALCOHOL AND BOOKS OF REFERENCE


LIST OF PATENTS RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURE OF ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOL-DISTILLING APPARATUS


GENERAL INDEX


INDEX TO U. S. REGULATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS


INDEX TO REPORT OF THE BRITISH DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE


INDEX TO APPENDICES FROM MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE BRITISH DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE


 

 

 

 


 

Denatured (and) Industrial Alcohol $29.95

Every Single Way of Making Alcohol on an Industrial Scale—or small scale.  516 Pages of knowledge that covers fermentation, the organisms, source material, mashes, crops to use, yield, formulas, distillation, byproducts, heat measurement, usage in engines and much more.  The book covers the usage of alcohol for cooking, heating and illumination, just to name a few.  It even has details on converting sawdust and other organic material to a form that can be digested by alcohol yeasts to make ETHYL Alcohol.  Yes!—Ethanol from sawdust, dead trees, newspaper, cellulose etc…  Making alcohol will be an important part of a hydrogen generation system that Roy McAlister and I will be detailing in a future DVD.  You will be able to make H2 from alcohol that is made to hydrogen boost turbines or methane.  With this book, we made alcohol, distilled it and burned it in 7 days!  NO, it is not illegal.  It is illegal in most places to distill alcohol for human consumption.  You do NOT drink DE-natured alcohol. If you are going to seriously distill alcohol, it is easy to get a still permit from the ATF.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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