Diseño de un sistema de destilación para la producción de licor anisado en la Empresa Destilería Bolívar.

Abstract

The design of a distillation system for the production of aniseed liqueur for the Bolivar distillery company performed in San Miguel canton, Bolivar Province. The recognition of the place and quantity of the production for the development took place. A vinillo characterization as a raw material under the IENEN 1837 standard started which includes a physical-chemical analysis as higher alcohols, Furfural methane and alcoholic degree, a simulation of the pilot test did in the Organic Chemistry laboratory in the Faculty of Sciences of the Higher Polytechnic School of Chimborazo. An appropriate formulation got and the most appropriate process defined, the obtained data in the simulation and variables of operation were registered. The design of the necessary equipment was performed for the proposed process as a feeding tank, the distillation tower, and the condenser. The validation of the product and the process carried out on the INEN 0370:2015 standard. A chemical characterization performed, which the generated values were in the laboratory within the established limits by these regulation that were: alcoholic degree 35,95 ᵒGL, the higher alcohols are in values of 140,2, the Furfural with 1,34 and methanol <2, all these parameters in units of mg/100 mg of anhydrous alcohol. These proposed process is suitable for the elaboration of liqueur since it assured the quality of obtained product. The research paper recommends having a record of the process temperature ant meticulous control in each stage of the process.