date-created: '2007-05-17'
date-updated: '2025-09-18'
manifest-author:
    name: Appropedia
    email: admin@appropedia.org
title: "Amal's ethanol still"
description: 'I made this still to determine the cost inputs and energy outputs of small scale ethanol production from local and conventional sources. I used this still to compare the costs and efficiencies of ethanol from organic sugar beets versus refined cane sugar.'
keywords:
    - ethanol
    - still
    - alcohol
    - 'alcohol fuels'
    - '10 gallon barrel'
    - copper
    - 'copper pipe'
    - 'stainless steel'
project-link: "https://www.appropedia.org/Amal's_ethanol_still"
contact:
    name: Amal
    social:
        platform: Appropedia
        user-handle: Amal
version: 30
development-stage: Deployed
made: false
image: 'https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/thumb/8/82/Ethanol_production_my_pipebomb.jpg/1280px-Ethanol_production_my_pipebomb.jpg'
variant-of:
    title: 'Homemade ethanol'
    web: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Homemade_ethanol'
license:
    documentation: CC-BY-SA-3.0
licensor:
    name: Amal
    affliation: 'Cal Poly Humboldt'
    contact: 'https://www.appropedia.org/Amal'
documentation-home: "https://www.appropedia.org/Amal's_ethanol_still"
documentation-language: en