Triangle Water Heater SR12 User Manual
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GLOSSARY
Auto-ignition Point - The temperature at which a solvent will self ignite (no stimulus required).
Baffle - A metal duct used to direct the vapors to the vapor collection manifold. The baffle is filled with
packing to impede the flow of vapor causing a reflux. The condensed liquid rectifies vapor.
Boiling Point - The temperature at which the given product starts to transform into its gaseous form.
Cut - A fraction or portion of distilled material taken off at the head (Vapor Collection Duct Manifold) of the
still.
Distilland - The mixture of materials placed in the distilling vessel: the material to be distilled.
Distillate - The material that has been boiled through a column: The separated material taken off at the head.
Efficiency - A means of comparing the actual useful separating power of distillation columns.
Flash Point - The temperature at which the solvent will ignite if brought in contact with a spark.
Flooding - Excess liquid forced up the still into the condenser as a result of overfilling the vessel and the
high heat input at the pot. Usually detrimental, since the distlland mixture is forced into the area in which
only pure material is desired.
Fraction - A portion of the collected separated material recovered from the head of the still.
Fractional Distillation - distillation in which rectification is used to obtain a product as nearly pure as
possible. In the operation, part of the vapor is condensed as it passes through packing and the liquid is
refluxed down the column; thus producing a high vapor-to-liquid contact. The term is also used to describe
any distillation in which the product is collected in a series of fractions or cuts.
Rectification - The enrichment or purification of vapor by contact and interaction with a counter-current
stream of liquid condensed from the vapor.
Reflux - the term used to describe the liquid condensed from rising vapor, which is allowed to flow back
down the column.
Simple Distillation - Distillation in which no appreciable rectification or reflux occurs: All condensed vapor
is removed from the still at the head.
Takeoff - the liquid removed from the still per unit time: The amount of separated material recovered from
the still.
Throughput - the rate at which vapor is capable of passing up the column against resistance of the packing:
it is a measure of the output capacity of the still
Baffle - A metal duct used to direct the vapors to the vapor collection manifold. The baffle is filled with
packing to impede the flow of vapor causing a reflux. The condensed liquid rectifies vapor.
Boiling Point - The temperature at which the given product starts to transform into its gaseous form.
Cut - A fraction or portion of distilled material taken off at the head (Vapor Collection Duct Manifold) of the
still.
Distilland - The mixture of materials placed in the distilling vessel: the material to be distilled.
Distillate - The material that has been boiled through a column: The separated material taken off at the head.
Efficiency - A means of comparing the actual useful separating power of distillation columns.
Flash Point - The temperature at which the solvent will ignite if brought in contact with a spark.
Flooding - Excess liquid forced up the still into the condenser as a result of overfilling the vessel and the
high heat input at the pot. Usually detrimental, since the distlland mixture is forced into the area in which
only pure material is desired.
Fraction - A portion of the collected separated material recovered from the head of the still.
Fractional Distillation - distillation in which rectification is used to obtain a product as nearly pure as
possible. In the operation, part of the vapor is condensed as it passes through packing and the liquid is
refluxed down the column; thus producing a high vapor-to-liquid contact. The term is also used to describe
any distillation in which the product is collected in a series of fractions or cuts.
Rectification - The enrichment or purification of vapor by contact and interaction with a counter-current
stream of liquid condensed from the vapor.
Reflux - the term used to describe the liquid condensed from rising vapor, which is allowed to flow back
down the column.
Simple Distillation - Distillation in which no appreciable rectification or reflux occurs: All condensed vapor
is removed from the still at the head.
Takeoff - the liquid removed from the still per unit time: The amount of separated material recovered from
the still.
Throughput - the rate at which vapor is capable of passing up the column against resistance of the packing:
it is a measure of the output capacity of the still