drilled holes in the trees. Plastic tubing, sometimes called pipeline, carries the sap from the tree to a holding tank or bucket.Acer saccharumis a type of sugar maple commonly found in northeastern regions of the United States. One sugar maple will usually provide sap for at least 100 ...
” said Russo. The sap flows in plastic tubing from the trees downhill into a holding tank, then runs by 16 ultraviolet light bulbs which purify it, killing bacteria. This contributes the quality and grade of his syrup. A reverse-osmosis machine draws water away from the sap and the ...
Referring now to FIG. 8, there is shown the connections between the washing sub-unit130and the membrane sub-system120′ of FIG. 2 to a tank sub-system140comprising a concentrate holding tank144, a maple sap holding tank142and a permeate holding tank146. It should be noted that the pumpin...
making maple syrup always involves boiling the sap. And boiling some more. And boiling still more. It takes about 40 gallons of sap boiled down to make one gallon of syrup. To illustrate, think of the biggest stock pot