INCLUDING
The Processes of Malting; Mashing and Mascerating; Fermentingand Distilling Alcohol from Grain, Beets,Potatoes, Molasses, etc., with Chapterson Alcoholometry and the
DE-NATURING OF ALCOHOL
FOR USE IN
Farm Engines, Automobiles, Launch Motors, and in Heatingand Lighting; with a Synopsis of the New FreeAlcohol Law and its Amendment and theGovernment Regulations.
BY F. B. WRIGHT.
SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND GREATLY ENLARGED
NEW YORK
SPON & CHAMBERLAIN, 123 Liberty Street
LONDON
E. & F. N. SPON, Limited, 57 Haymarket, S.W.
1907
Copyright, 1906,
By SPON & CHAMBERLAIN.
Copyright, 1907,
By SPON & CHAMBERLAIN.
McIlroy & Emmet, Printers, 22 Thames St., New York, U. S. A.
Since the passage of the “Free Alcohol Act”there has been a constantly increasing demand forinformation as to the manufacture of industrialalcohol. This, with the favorable reception accordedto the first edition of this book has lead thepublishers to bring out a second edition.
The entire volume has been carefully revisedand not only has the original text been amplifiedbut new chapters have been added explaining themost modern and approved methods and appliancesboth as used in Europe and in this country. Anothervaluable feature of the present volume isthe collection of U. S. de-naturing formulas coveringthe special denaturants necessitated by the variousarts and by the Government requirements. Thechapters on modern distilling apparatus rectifiersand modern plants have been very carefully preparedin order to give the reader a clear idea ofthe various types of apparatus in use to-day andof their general place in a distillery system. Thevalue of the book has been further increased bynumerous additional illustrations.
It would be impossible in the compass of onesmall volume to describe all the practical detailsof alcohol manufacture particularly as these[iv]details vary with every distillery, but it has beenthe aim of the author to give sufficient informationto enable every reader to understand the theoryand general practice of the art, leading him fromthe simple methods and apparatus used until thelast ten years to the more complicated stills andprocesses which have been lately devised.
Inasmuch as the manufacture of industrialalcohol has been most highly perfected in Franceand Germany, use has been made of the bestEuropean authorities and in particular the authorbegs to acknowledge his indebtedness to Sa MajesteL’Alcohol by L. Beaudry de Saunier. The publishers’and author’s acknowledgements are alsodue to the Vulcan Copper Works Company ofCincinnati, Ohio, and to the Geo. L. Squier ManufacturingCompany, Buffalo, New York, for theirkindness in allowing illustrations to be given ofmodern American distilling apparatus.
F. B. Wright.