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All Things Evaporators

Many producers refer to boiling as the art of making maple syrup. Boiling on a modern evaporator is a process requiring about 45 minutes to move from the inlet at the start to the draw-off at the finish. Bringing 2% sap through a float at the back of the machine and moving the sap forward through a series of channels until it reaches 66 Brix at the opposite end may sound quite simple; however, properly boiling syrup is a very complex scientific process based on physics, chemistry and microbiology.

Date:
January 4, 2021

Acer saccharum Marsh

Habitat, physiology, and other background on sugar maples.

Date:
January 1, 2021

Acer rubrum L

Habitat, physiology, and other background on red maples.

Date:
January 1, 2021

Acer nigrum Michx

Habitat, physiology, and other background on black maples.

Date:
January 1, 2021

Acer saccharinum L

Habitat, physiology, and other background on silver maples.

Date:
January 1, 2021

Optimizing the Performance of My Vacuum Tubing System

When we talk about tubing systems, we have two roads to travel. One is a gravity system and the other is a vacuum system. A conventional 5/16” gravity system is not much different from running sap into a bucket. The yield is much the same as collecting sap in a bucket. When we add vacuum to a tubing system, we increase the sap yield 5% for every inch of vacuum we generate in our system. For example, if we produce 15 inches of vacuum in a line, we should be able to almost double our sap yield. The first year after installation is always the best. As time on a system accumulates, wear-and-tear hampers performance.

Date:
September 17, 2020