Cooling and drying devices paragraph 1 of 2
The cooling and drying devices used in water and steam distillation consist of spiral or circular twisted-shaped tubes or tubes with an inner diameter of about one inch made of stainless steel or copper covered from the inside with a layer of tin connected directly to the end of the elbow and submerged under the surface The water is in a large basin and its other end is open to let the drying water flow to the florentina outside the cooling basin, and usually the cooling and drying devices are formed separately according to the density of water vapor generated by the boiler used.
* Condenser receivers:
The condensate is a mixture of water and distilled aromatic oil after cooling and condensing them, which is received or collected in special glass containers known as fluorantina, and when filled with water and oil it is replaced by an empty one and then left for a short period until our layer forms separation inside, one of which is a carrier layer For volatile oil, and the other for the water layer, in the case of oil of light density and less than the density of water, the oil floats, and vice versa, and thus it is easy to separate each of them separately using the pouring process and sometimes, to increase the distillation time and prolong its period, we find in hours The first of this process is that the oil of lower density floats on the surface of the water inside Florentina.
At the end of the distillation process, there remains at the bottom of the separation vessels or the Florentina bottle, a perfume oil with a high density and high viscosity. Therefore, the glass vessels are designed with specific shapes or sizes (10-25) liters of different capacity depending on the characteristics of the oil, its viscosity and its density to facilitate its separation through a valve. Or a faucet attached to its inner space, bottom and top, for Florentina glass containers.
