stillage

[stil-ij] /ˈstɪl ɪdʒ/

noun

a low platform on which goods are stored in a warehouse or factory to keep them off the floor, to aid in handling, etc.

Compare skid (def 3).

Origin

1590-1600; < Dutch stellage, equivalent to stell(en) to place + -age -age

Examples from the web for stillage

Anaerobic digestion of corn ethanol thin stillage at thermophilic temperature with two completely stirred tank reactors is tested.
Thin stillage overflow is pumped into a thin stillage storage tank.
The balance of undissolved and dissolved solids came from the stillage to which the fiber was added.
The liquid remaining after screening or centrifuging contains fine grain particles and yeast cells and is called thin stillage.
It is common practice to dilute the hot grain mash to its final solids concentration by adding backset stillage and/or water.
Once the starch is converted to an alcohol, the leftover stillage is turned into distiller's grains.
With sugar, the concentrated stillage is used as fertilizer after addition of nutrients.
stillage, the residue remaining after ethanol is distilled can be separated to yield a solid and a soluble fraction.
The nonfermentable residues are removed from the process stream from the distillation stage as whole stillage.
The whole stillage is centrifuged to remove the water.

British Dictionary definitions for stillage

/ˈstɪlɪdʒ/

noun

a frame or stand for keeping things off the ground, such as casks in a brewery

a container in which goods, machinery, etc, are transported

Word Origin

C16: probably from Dutch stillagie frame, scaffold, from stellen to stand; see -age