Medieval literature provides us with examples of distillation designs based on animals and figures. Alchemists or scientists of the time (notably Porta and Brunschwyck) describe a circulatorium to perform “digestion” of a substance based on a set of twins or… Read more ›
“Spinning band” is a distillation process that uses a column with internally moving packing to perform a separation of components, even those with very close boiling points. Spinning band provides a very high degree of separation within a small footprint.… Read more ›
A glass molecular falling film still is an extremely simple apparatus that is useful for cleaning up a distillation run, performing a separation at a precise temperature, or (what we use it for) recovering hearts from the heads fraction. The… Read more ›