Patent ID: 7972825

Claim:
An integrated apparatus for producing and separating ethanol from mash, comprising: a support frame; a mash circulating-and-fermenting-and-recirculating system including first pipes connecting a mash fermentation tank and a recirculation pump that pumps mash along the first pipes to a warming station having first coils and then pumps the mash back to the mash fermentation tank; an atmosphere circulating-and-recirculating system including second pipes connecting the mash fermentation tank and a blower blowing ethanol-water-vapor-laden atmosphere from the mash fermentation tank to an ethanol-and-water-vapor-condensing station having second coils and then blowing dried atmosphere back to the mash fermentation tank; and a refrigerating/heat-transfer system with lines and a compressor motivating compressible coolant fluid to flow through the first coils at the warming station and through the second coils at the ethanol-and-water-vapor-condensing station; and the support frame supporting portions of the first and second pipes and also supporting the refrigerating/heat-transfer system including the compressor, the first coils, and the second coils.