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distillation - The process of heating a mixture to separate the more volatile from the less volatile parts, and then condensing fractions of the resulting vapour so as to produce a more nearly pure or refined substance. [FAO]

News archive for distillation.

Review: Pilar Rioja at Repertorio Español  -  21 Aug 2007
Newsday,But St. Teresa's self-annihilating love of God is already so arcane a subject that it can't withstand the distillation, especially in such a dusty mode as

Mute Manson  -  21 Aug 2007
SF Weekly,...inspiration behind "Heart-Shaped Glasses," Eat Me, Drink Me's first single, and sadly, a complete distillation of what makes the album ring so hollow.

Book review: Wes Dos' Condition to Win  -  21 Aug 2007
Police News,Condition to Win is Wes' distillation of the knowledge about the mental contribution to performance. And there's quite a bit of it.

Farm stories for August 21st  -  21 Aug 2007
Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre,The grain is a cereal by-product created through the distillation process used to produce ethanol. University spokeswoman Karen Wittenberg says the project

Letters for the week of August 22-28, 2007  -  21 Aug 2007
East Bay Express,To say nothing of "edgy" dishes, their "pure distillation of the season." (You like to write, don't you?) Anyway, it sounded awesome, so I took my wife.

Que Dolce, Fruitvale  -  21 Aug 2007
East Bay Express,A distillation of vegetable starch and sweetness, like your fondest memory of canned cream-style corn. But Abundis uses fresh corn.

Vodka, grenache and verdicchio, oh my  -  21 Aug 2007
Vail Daily News,The company also produces a peach-flavored Goat vodka, which is infused with Palisade peaches added during the distillation process.

Biofuels: The Water Problem  -  21 Aug 2007
Energy Tribune,That figure includes the amount needed for all irrigation and distillation. For comparison, the two scientists estimated that each gallon of gasoline

Pocket Doc  -  21 Aug 2007
Chicago Flame Online (subscription),Third, the levels of congeners, or impurities after fermentation and distillation; congeners are various substances left over from making the spirit and are

Shaw-Ross to Market Gold Flakes Supreme(TM) Vodka in the United States  -  21 Aug 2007
PR Newswire (press release),The most expensive natural ingredients are added in the distillation and production process. In order to produce its distinctive taste, Gold Flakes Supreme

A new setting for Shakespeare  -  21 Aug 2007
NorthJersey.com,..."It still has the tautness of the poetic distillation, the compression of the language and the essence and eloquence of it." Kline found there was something

Mastertaste unveils botanical extracts for flavour customisation  -  21 Aug 2007
DairyReporter.com,The company explained that the extraction process involves hydro-alcoholic infusion, and a final stage of distillation enables recovery of all the solvent

TFS announces net profit increase of 60% to 19.2m  -  21 Aug 2007
WA Business News (subscription),Under this agreement, Albert Vieille will provide technical assistance to TFS in the establishment of a pilot processing and distillation facility at

Do You Comply With New Lamp Disposal Legislation?  -  21 Aug 2007
The Open Press (press release)...waste transfer notes, duty of care tracking, haulage, lamp sorting, recycling processing, distillation of phosphor and recycling certificates.

With a whisky in my hand...  -  Aug 18, 2007
Sunday Herald,Long gone are the times of clandestine distillation, now whisky is made with knowledge and skills that had become art; and the nation's tartan is waved with

Silver Eagle refinery expects to resume operations  -  Aug 17, 2007
Salt Lake Tribune,Silver Eagle Refining Inc. said its vacuum distillation unit at its crude oil refinery in the Salt Lake City area likely will be back in operation by late

Distillation still/fractional column hybrid  -  Aug 1, 2007
Laboratory Talk,Versatile design allows configuration for molecular (short-path) distillation, evaporation, or fractionation, plus choice of glass, 316L SS, Hastelloy,

Ultra-Premium Tequila Makes New Splash in World of Spirits  -  Aug 17, 2007
PR-GB.com (press release),His initial offerings included Dos Lunas Silver Tequila made through a cold-filtering process and double distillation and the Dos Lunas Reposado that took

Essential oil extraction facility reduces rural poverty  -  Aug 9, 2007
Engineering News (press release),Oil is extracted through a distillation process. The processing facilities are designed to process the plant material at a rate of eight distillations a day

MarketMotive Launched By Marshall, Stebbins...  -  Aug 17, 2007
Internet Financial News,..."The distillation of our thinking, our philosophy, our advice and our tricks will be available through a subscription only website.

CPC restarts crude unit following fire  -  Aug 1, 2007
Taipei Times,CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, �?��?�中油 ) said a crude distillation unit at its Kaohsiung refinery resumed its operations a day after a fire,

Clarity, on a future day  -  Aug 16, 2007
Anniston Star (subscription),That mindset is a nice distillation of everything the US Constitution opposes. Or as another appellate judge, Damon J. Keith, considering Bush

Zinc metallurgy in ancient India  -  Aug 6, 2007
Deccan Herald,Ancient mine workings and distillation furnaces indicate that ancient India had acquired the technical knowledge much before the industrial revolution.

EarthFirst finds partner for tire recycling plant  -  Aug 7, 2007
Bizjournals.com,...construction and rollout of a generation tire processing facility known as the Catalytic Activated Vacuum Distillation Reactor.

UPDATE 3-BP sees damaged US refineries at capacity in 2008  -  Jul 24, 2007
Reuters.uk,Earlier this month, the largest of three crude distillation units at Whiting went into repair to fix a minor leak. BP has since restarted the unit.

The 1970s fashion diva Zandra Rhodes is back  -  Aug 20, 2007
International Herald Tribune,They represent a distillation of Rhodes's design identity, a zany fusion of the ethereal and the raw. Her chiffons have unfinished seams.

Nigeria: Funding Research for Petroleum Industry  -  Aug 20, 2007
AllAfrica.com,...development of platinum-alumina catalyst for the reformation of straight run naptha of a typical crude distillation as well as design and fabrication of

GreenHunter BioFuels Receives Necessary Permits for Country's ...  -  Jul 27, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),These permits open the way for construction of a 105 million gallon per year (mgy) biodiesel facility including a separate but related methanol distillation

Methanol, the alcohol that kills  -  Aug 14, 2007
afrol News,Their danger stems from human body and which is produced during distillation. substantially, from all these distilled beverages. Unfortunately the drink is

Illicit distillery raided at Nagoda  -  Aug 4, 2007
Sunday Observer,Residents were aware of what went on because the stench emanating from the garbage dump was so intense that it doused the smell of liquor distillation.

UPDATE 2-Exxon restarting units at UK Fawley refinery  -  Jul 30, 2007
Reuters.uk,The fire at Fawley followed a blaze at Exxon's Rotterdam fire, which forced the comapny to shut a vacuum distillation column and a flexicoker,

After months together, they bid goodbye  -  Aug 10, 2007
The News Journal,By ERIC RUTH, The News Journal William Foote of Wilmington puts final touches on the distillation tower before it is shipped to Nebraska.

Celebrate tech breakthroughs, but remain skeptical  -  Aug 10, 2007
Grist Magazine,If it is so superior to steam conventional steam distillation, why -- two decades later -- is it not now in widespread use around the world?

Praj board approves raising up to $125 mln  -  Jul 28, 2007
Reuters India,MUMBAI (Reuters) - Distillation equipment maker Praj Industries Ltd. plans to raise up to $125 million for financing the company's expansion and

Tour de France - stage nineteen guide  -  Jul 27, 2007
Times Online,...the city is most famous for its alcohol export of the same name, made from grapes and created accidentally through double-distillation.

SPC reports Q2 profit of S$179.2m, up 32% on year  -  Jul 25, 2007
Channel News Asia,SPC shut a distillation complex for maintenance for 26 days during the second quarter, which resulted in a 9.2 percent reduction in throughput.

5 Guides for Today  -  Aug 20, 2007
ChristianityToday.com,Here an excerpt from Fred’s last article in 2005, the distillation of Fred’s final years as a mentor. It must be awfully safe to write to a 90-year-old,

Catching Some Rays  -  Aug 20, 2007
National Science Foundation (press release)..."The first part of the strategy was to use a simple detection liquid that could be purified by standard methods such as distillation.

Call for setting up agar auction centre in Jorhat  -  Jul 29, 2007
Assam Tribune,The study also revealed that about 8000 home-based distillation plants exist at different pockets like Namti, Nahoroni and Hojai in upper and central Assam.

Thanks, Rick Ankiel  -  Aug 10, 2007
NBCSports.com,That home run is a sweet distillation of nothing less than the American dream, at least as we like to tell it to each other -- a well-deserved moment of

Kudos to IBWA for the quest to achieve Accuracy in Media by the ...  -  Aug 3, 2007
Water Technology Online,However, if the water is subject to Distillation, Deionization or Reverse Osmosis (RO), the Bottled Water can be legally defined as Purified Water,

The History of Rum  -  Aug 1, 2007
Blogcritics.org,When the first distillation of rum began, it began in the Caribbean when plantation slaves realized that molasses, left over from sugar refinement,

The Sacred States of America  -  Aug 19, 2007
Boston Globe,...can't be separated from biblical faith, historically or now: It "was a distillation of biblical (especially Old Testament) principles [that] created a

He Got Out While the Getting Was Good  -  Aug 18, 2007
New York Times,Second, the Allen slur was a compact distillation of the brute nastiness of the Bush-Rove years, all that ostentatious "compassion" notwithstanding.

Cost-conscious Americans can still turn the tap to quench thirst  -  Aug 18, 2007
Houston Chronicle,...not contain more than 10 parts per million of total dissolved solids) and may also be free of microbes if treated by distillation or reverse osmosis.

Brokers Fill 204000 SF; Phase II Work Begins  -  Jul 26, 2007
GlobeSt. com,In the completed deals, Catalytic Distillation Technologies, a Houston-based developer and licenser of refining and petrochemical processes, took 60000 sf,

Wednesday Ramblings  -  Jul 25, 2007
Stabroek News,For your information, diesel is a derivative petroleum-based fuel for diesel engines: a thick oily fuel that is obtained from the distillation of petroleum.

Job Search Secret #1  -  Aug 2, 2007
أرابياHe writes a distillation of these years of experience with all the essential facts and actions you must complete in order to achieve your own success.

Crude unit of CPC at Kaohsiung refinery restarts production after ...  -  Aug 1, 2007
Polymerupdate.com (subscription),While in conversation with an industry source based in Taiwan, a polymerupdate team member reported that operations were restarted at a crude distillation

The Outer Limits  -  Aug 19, 2007
Antiwar.com,In Philip Atkinson's ravings, we have the pure distillation of the politics of fear that have been given ample expression by this president and his media

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