New pump

[Head Womble]

  Just need a buxom blond waiting for me upstairs with a large glass of Laphroaig.

All you'll get is Jim or Chunder in stockings and suspenders.

[Jamesrl]

  Just need a buxom blond waiting for me upstairs with a large glass of Laphroaig.

All you'll get is Jim or Chunder in stockings and suspenders.

And a wig, he wants Blonde.

[Julian]

Think I'm going to need a bigger condenser ....



I've seen this before when demething, but not dewatering.

[Jamesrl]

Bleedin' 'ell, what you got in your reactor, 50% water?

Nah, that's dry ice in the jar.

[Head Womble]

1 x quad core added to your santa's list.

[Julian]

Really weird, just like steam but cold!  As it was only water, I let it run like this for a while to try and speed the drying.

[Julian]

1 x quad core added to your santa's list.

No, Santa has already bought me the electronics and stepper motors for a 3D printer, shame he didn't give me a brain capable of making the bloody things work!

I'll have to go it alone on the condenser, but I've had some further ideas about that design I posted up on the VOD a long time back ... it's on the list.

[Julian]

Looks like the new pump/pipework combo is causing an emulsion during pump washing.  This was a duff batch, half reprocessed and needed far more acid than normal to neutralise, but all the same something I'm going to have to watch out for ...


Left is a sample taken during the fourth wash after the acid wash.
Middle a sample taken after settling in the processor of the tail end of the emulsion when draining the wash water.
Right is the same phase as above but split with 40% sulfuric ... took a fair amount to split it quickly.

I'm assuming this is a wholly mechanically created emulsion.

If this continues the solution (besides building my square processor) will be to add a valve to the TAM suction so I can use the full flow of the Mono for washing.  The Mono has a nice and gentle pumping action.