FSD Neutraliser (Brian the Bubbler)

[WalterWhite]

So my newest son has arrived and I've Christened him with a bath of holy vinegar!
May I introduce you all to Brian ...

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Attached the plumbing setup to see how it looks ...

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All washed and ready to go now. Boiler is charged with some watered down feints ready for a sac run on Thursday evening.

[xcvator]

I think I hate you now :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
That's one schmick looking bit of gear :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Matt_Pl]

Your setup is identical to mine mate, its a great bloody still!

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy mine!

:happy-partydance: :happy-partydance: :text-+1: :clap: :clap:

[maddogpearse]

they say good things come to those who wait! looks great benny! enjoy it mate! :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Redux]

Welcome to the club!!

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[Wobblyboot]

:handgestures-thumbupleft: that looks awesome! I don't want 1 the same as that, I need it :think: I better do some invoicing and see if I'm close :techie-typing:

[WalterWhite]

Thanks for all the comments chaps ... I am a little bit in love at the moment and wanted to pull a sickie tonight but unfortunately I'm at work!
Day shift tomorrow so will be doing my sac run in the evening ... Then I've got a long long weekend :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Will be doing a TPW run then reducing to 4 plates for a CFW and a WBAB run.
Can't wait to put this beast in to action!!

[rumdidlydum]

Veryyyyy niceee. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
I bet you just stood for 10min just staring at it, admiring and contimplating strategies and possibly's. :teasing-tease:

[WalterWhite]

Ok .... Not sure if I have a problem or not.

Did my sac run this evening and had the boiler charged with about 30 litres at around 25%

I had the still set up with all five plates and packed section stuffed with copper mesh and SS scrubbers

My issue is that I could not achieve full reflux

I ran with a single 2200w element. 350w Ozito water pump coming from a 200L drum. Water temp was 22•. I ran the PC wide open (haven't put a valve on it), after collecting fores opened the RC up so it was wide open as well .... But there was still a trickle coming out ... Probably about .6-.8l an hour even with RC fully open.

Thoughts are that I could try some SS in the RC tubes. Reduce the flow to the PC (thus increasing flow to RC) or use my power controller to reduce the power (I thought the RC would fully reflux 2200w with ease) :think:

Any and all thoughts appreciated

[rumdidlydum]

It sounds like the water is taking the least path of resistance. I.e all going to the pc and its too hard work for the water to go through the tap on the rc. :-B
Edit I just had another look at your plumbing, and the hose for the rc is longer than the pc hose. So that the theoretical path of lease resistance is the pc.

[Clickeral]

With 2400w and my small RC I can't even get a trickle of product out without reducing the water flow to a trickle

They should be good for about 3kw

I run 4.8kw and it comes out at 3.8Lph with the water flow full open

[WalterWhite]

Thanks for the reply Rum ...
The RC is naturally higher in this configuration so don't think I can make the hose shorter. Simple fix would be to get a valve on the PC as well so that I can restrict its flow I order to increase the RC flow.
I won't be able to get to bunnings for a while now and it's not a major issue so in the meanwhile I will run a TPW through this configuration and then reduce it down to just four plates for a CFW run and see how the RC handles this.

[Darwin award]

Thanks for the reply Rum ...
The RC is naturally higher in this configuration so don't think I can make the hose shorter. Simple fix would be to get a valve on the PC as well so that I can restrict its flow I order to increase the RC flow.
I won't be able to get to bunnings for a while now and it's not a major issue so in the meanwhile I will run a TPW through this configuration and then reduce it down to just four plates for a CFW run and see how the RC handles this.

how'd it go? get it sorted? My neutralizer is doing thre driving tour of outer Darwin......apparently.... :crying-blue:

[WalterWhite]

Just decided to do a stripping run of my TPW first.
About halfway through and my cooling water is getting pretty bloody hot :think:
Still planning to do a CFW run through four plates straight after so will let you know how it goes

[WTDist]

[WalterWhite]

Strip run done....
Now setup and heating up a 40ish litre CFW run through four plates.

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[WTDist]

damn wish i had a spare $2k

[WalterWhite]

Lol I had to sell a few things to raise it. And the rest came from a savings fund for wifeys 40th. I saw it as an interest free loan to myself and have just upped the payments in to the savings account a little to compensate :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[WalterWhite]

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Does this bath depth look about right?
Also is it normal for the bottom plate to be slightly less active than the top. It's bubbling just not as hard.

[WTDist]

got a vid?