Project Title: Design of distillation apparatus for home distillation of tsipouro, with detachable parts of additional use.
Designer: George Armaos.
School: Deparment of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean.
Tsipouro is one of the most popular Greek distillates.Its' popularity has lead to its massive production and distillation, using Industrial Stills of large capacity. Apart from the distillation of industrial scale,home distillation is considered another popular Greek hobby. However, home distillation is a hobby quite limited by the Greek law, like everywhere else in the world. An individual who owns the appropriate licence to practice home distillation is allowed to do it for 48 hours a year. This situation, seen from the aspect of hardware, has two sides. One side is the individual who uses a properly manufactured still to execute the distillation, a still which will be useless for the most time of the year(considering a legitimate time limit). The other side is the individual who assembles a DIY still out of common and everyday pieces(e.g. cooking pots and plastic barrels), which produce a distillate of doubtful quality and/or dangerous to health.
This projects goal was to design an apparatus capable of home distillation which:
_provides a healthy an of undoubtful quality, distillate.
_through the additional use of its parts, it will be useful for the most time of the year and will justify its production and purchase cost.
In other words, this projects goal was the design of a Pot Still , which will replace solutions like the following:
After processing the phases of Research, Ideation and Conceptualization the project is finalized with the end result, the idea of the main product. Its presentation is split in two parts: the Distillation part and the Pieces Use part.
This part is about the parts that make the system a proper Pot Still, and the assembly of these parts.
This part is about the systems' comprising pieces and their additional use.
