Systems and methods for rehabilitating alcohol
OwnerMatthew Rubin, Adam Daniel Ambrecht +1inventors
InventorsMatthew Rubin, Adam Daniel Ambrecht, Jessica Clare Halstead
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Abstract
A method for rehabilitating alcohol, including placing a quantity of ethanol solution in a pressure-controllable environment, decreasing the pressure of the pressure-controllable environment to about 25 Torr, holding the pressure of the pressure-controllable environment at about 25 Torr for a first predetermined period of time, removing unwanted congeners, such as ethyl acetate, from the ethanol solution to yield a treated ethanol solution, and removing treated solution from the pressure-controllable environment.
Claims14
A method for rehabilitating alcohol, comprising:
- a) placing a quantity of ethanol solution in a pressure-controllable environment;
- b) decreasing the pressure of the pressure-controllable environment to about 25 Torr;
- c) holding the pressure of the pressure-controllable environment at about 25 Torr for a first predetermined period of time;
- d) removing ethyl acetate from the ethanol solution to yield a first treated ethanol solution;
- e) removing the first treated ethanol solution from the pressure-controllable environment;
- wherein steps a) through e) occur at ambient temperature;
- and
- wherein no distillation occurs during steps a) through e).
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A method for removing unwanted congeners from an ethanol solution, comprising:
- a) establishing a partial vacuum in a pressure vessel;
- b) flowing a quantity of ethanol solution into the pressure vessel;
- c) at least partially preferentially removing at least one unwanted congener from the ethanol solution to yield a treated ethanol solution;
- d) extracting the treated ethanol solution from the pressure vessel;
- wherein while in the pressure vessel, the ethanol solution remains liquid′;
- wherein the partial vacuum is about 25 Torr;
- wherein step c) is performed at about 22 degrees Celsius for about 5 seconds;
- and
- wherein during steps a)-d), no distillation occurs.
The method of claim i8, wherein the unwanted congener is ethyl acetate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.