Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-16

substances are shaken and famed
loose. 1t then passes thru grinders,
which break up the kernels to separate fl
those cells which hold the lacohol. En-
route 1t is weighed by the government
weigher who keeps count of what
passes him. The broken kernels are
soaked for time, then the liquid Is
pumped into two immense steel tanks,
into which hot steam is driven. There
1T is cooked at high temperature for
forty-five minutes.
Add Yeast Before Taking.
Before taking 1t much farther on It's
Journey from solid to complete liquid,
yeast is added. incidentally, after the
corn is mixed with water, it is there
after forced thru pipe lines from pro-
cess to process by pressure pumps.
After leaving the cooking tanks II
is lifed to the third floor, and dumped
into the mash tanks. Here the yeast
Is added, while great power paddles !
stir the mixture thoroughly in.
From the mash tubs it is forced thru
other pipes to the fermenting watts, |
where it stews and brews for sixty
hours, while the fermenting process
steals from the cells the alcohol they
contain.
Then for the purpose of collecting it
| in one place, that 1t can be more easily
handled, 1T is pumped into an immense
concrete walled cistern.
Separating the Alcohol.
| While in this state of mixture the
alcohol the water and residue of the
corn are all as one. For the purpose
of separating the alcohol from the water
and the residue it goes into the still.
Now this still is like a long. slim boiler.
1t is copper and three stories high, or
lat least it extends up thru three stories
of the building.
Into this the mixture is pumped.
while from the bottom Of the still cop
per pipes, filled with steam, send out
terrific heat This heat reduces the
liquids to vapor or steam. They ascend
upward within the still, only to be coll
lected up above by condensation. In
this condensing process the alcohol is
separated, condenses by ITSELF and
passes off one way. The water con-
denses and passes off another route.
II The alcohol, now finished, runs thru
pipes to the storehouse to be put in
tanks or shipping containers. The resi-
due is pumped into tanks and from
there is drawn off and reduced to dry
!. stock food.
u Has Many Uses.
Denatured alcohol has wide variety
: of uses, and it is denatured for the pur-
poses for which it is used. What is
known as the completely denatured al
cohol is used for heat, light and power.
} Lamps and stoves burn it, and it fur
nishes power for engines. The COM
pletely denatured is the common kind.
To make it wood alcohol and benzine
are the denaturing- agents. Ninety
parts of grain alcohol, nine of wood
5 alcohol and one of benzine are the
5 proportions, and when thus concocted
no man could drink it and live, unless
, he be possessed of copper stomach.
, The denaturing agent for specially
denatured alcohol depends upon the
use for which the denatured product is
7 intended. A great variety of denatur-
? ing agents are used for this purpose.
Such denatured alcohol is used in the
manufacture of many kinds of cloth,
r in varnishes, paints, shellac, color pig
|, ments, and many other things. M
9 Grain alcohol, which is nothing but
9 denatured alcohol without the denatur-
e ing agent mixed in, is used widely by
It manufacturing chemists of preparatory
s medicines, and drugs of all kinds 81 in
n addition to many other things.
i When the plant is once in operation
t visitors will be welcome to go thru it
r at any time.