So I checked Pinnacle out and currently waiting for an email back from them.
Delta wont ship to where I live and Agile seem to be a brewing equipment company?
thank you for the reply and help of course
wont work, Delta doesnt want to send units abroad due to lack of international support and maintanance.
we have aunit that will be ready in about 2 weeks and can process the volume you are looking for. We sell these units all the time and its a bulk ethanol removal system and purification
Yes we build brewing equipment as well as food and beverage. But we also have a 2GPM FFE for solvent recovery. We are in the final stages of our peer review and certification process. We’ll be putting the word out very soon and will start taking orders for Croptober 2019 delivery. Please send me an email at agilestainless@gmail.com with your company info and shipping address and we’ll get you set up.
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You seriously need to post specifics on your website, I don’t know why anybody would trust an “I’ll have it ready in 2 weeks” post when there’s so many dishonest people and businesses in this industry.
OP: Do you want to evaporate a ton of biomass extraction worth of ethanol a day, or a ton of ethanol a day?
If the former, we need details on how many washes you plan, are you using a centrifuge, etc to give you meaningful advice.
If the latter, 1 gallon ethanol = 6.59 lbs. 2000/6.59 = 303.5 (rounded) gallons. Converted to liters that’s 1148.9
Knowing that you’ll produce 303.5 gals/day or 1148.9 liters/day, how fast do you want/need to do it? 8 hour day, 10 hour day, 2x 8 hour shifts?
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Yes there are a lot of dishonest people out there but we are not in that category. We have been building these for several years now and have many happy clients. The unit is almost finished
Proof is in the pudding, how are we supposed to distinguish you from the shysters if you can’t even update your website?
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Here’s an interesting concept. Solvent liquid ring system.
This might be “too much” for some folks
Maratek solvent recovery systems come with those.
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That looks awesome. Have to wonder what kind of service life a unit like that has and what a rebuild costs. Also have to wonder what the smallest unit they sell is, for what most of us are doing a vacuum pump the size of that skid is going to be about 50x larger than we actually need.
waiting for their reply, thanks buddy
We are a company that only runs Cannabis sativa plants meaning no hemp products, we get our high CBD crude from CBD rich cannabis strains.
Now during 3, 8 hour shifts we use 1 ton of ethanol, I need to recover as much as I can from the ethanol in the fastest time but also have the process be very efficient.
Now we have a serious bottleneck because someone before me thought that a 20L Buchi rotovap would get the job done…
Is it more clear now?
heard about those guys, I will shoot them an email also, thanks.
Liquid ring pumps with mechanical seals are about as low maintenance as you can get. As long as you don’t run seal dry, over/never grease the bearings, or run hard solids through it you’re good for years of industrious usage. A full overhaul would be bearings for the pump/motor, lip seals, a tube of flange sealant for gaskets or orings, a ptfe valve plate, and mechanical seal lapping or replacement. Very few moving parts. Total abuse and complete lack of or incorrect maintenance will be the thing to create downtime.
They make as small as a 5 cfm and go up to tens of thousands of cfm. That covers just about everyone.
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In my opinion, I would look for solvent recovery systems that are geared towards the biotech, food, Pharma industries because they have spent a great deal of effort and time ensuring the GMP documentation is provided with the equipment.
Also, they provide Factory Acceptance Tests and Site Acceptance Tests and Commissioning and Qualification. These will become crucial as the GMPs are enforced.
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It works a bit different than what you just mantioned.
Basically I can get any machine I want to be GMP approved, not 100% all machines but most.
I get the engineering report for the machine and as long as basic things are met than most likely our consulting company will build a protocol for the device to be approved.
So as long as the system is built using 316SS than most odds it will be approved.
Well, in my years of GMP validation and engineering, I’ve never heard of such easy GMP compliance…I hope your engineer’s ‘reports’ stand up to an FDA audit.
316SS is a good start, but what’s the polish level on the product-contact surfaces?
You have to seal the system with elastomers, what are they made out of?
Have they been tested to relevant standards (USP Class VI, BSE/TSE Free)?
Do you have SOPs for the equipment?
How is the revision process for the SOPs controlled? Do you have a quality department dedicated to document control?
Will you validate the system? What documents have you developed to capture the validation process?
Have you established a cleaning process? What post cleaning processes have you carried out to ensure that the cleaning was adequate? Where do you store this data?
That’s the tiny, tiny tip of the proverbial iceberg.
If you’re GMP certified and you can’t answer those question when the FDA comes through, you’re gonna be in some big trouble. They’ll give you a 483 and shut down your facility.
Good luck on finding the equipment you’re looking for