Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Has anybody tried running slopped down comments in a plate just out of curiosity

What do you mean by sloped downcomers? Many have tried J shaped downcomers where they extend quite a long way across underneath the plate but as far as I know all downcomers are vertical above the plate. Some early bubblers I have seen had external downcomers.

With industrial stills, they often tend to have a sloped or angled down Conner as it offers more surface area, just wondering if there are people out there doing this or not

No one here has done what you describe as far as i know.

Sloped downcomer designs do offer a greater active area (slight) but the main reason for spending more money on a sloped downcomer in order to direct liquid flow from an upper to a lower tray is when there is an issue with vapour-liquid disengagement - if there is a lot of foaming for example. With ethanol-water distillation systems this isn't a huge problem.

I would be more concerned with the downcomer sizing rather than whether its straight or sloped. It's more important to avoid downcomer choking and backup flooding problems than to get a small benefit from an increase in active area. (need to estimate the optimum downcomer area, average velocity and pressure drop - which are almost always empirically determined. Sloped downcomer make it even more difficult to estimate)

Nerd for the day :-B