I am set up for methanol recovery and was wondering if anyone is using this same setup to dry your diesel. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Christian

I haven't tried drying fuel via distillation and I doubt many others are either. I suspect this is the case because it takes so much energy to raise the temp to water boiling temp. It's way less energy intensive to use a drying tank system where you pump the fuel through the air and blow air over the flying fuel. Some don't even heat the fuel. I do but only to about 130 degrees. Some say it isn't necessary to heat but I am able to dry a 30 gallon batch in 3 to 5 hours with this method. It might take you that long to get the fuel up to temp to distil the water off.

Besides, distilling is the least safe of all my processes. The least about of distilling I can do the better.

Wayne

WayneThomas, I failed to include in my post that I am planning on using vacuum to reduce pressure thereby reducing the boiling point and ,hopefully, the amount of energy needed. It would seem to me that it would take less energy to pull a vacuum and heat to, say 140F.

This is exactly what I intend to do.
I intend to dry my product by flash boiling under vacume.
I should have two 500 gallon high pressure tanks on monday.