A (likely) unsolvable problem with ethanol extraction (keep them terps!)

Seems like a pretty easy thing to create. Heated nitrogen would do the trick for both jobs I’d imagine

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we are working on developing our own system if we cannot find something off the shelf.

If you add water to the 5% residual ethanol would the oil separate out?

I would assume so… if you add enough water. i will probably try that this week. I tried adding water drop-wise to reduce solubility and encourage crystal formation. Still learning how to handle the material we are obtaining.

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Is there a reason you don’t want to extract the terpenes in a vacuum oven with a cold trap prior to ethanol extraction then re-add them to the final product?

If you are capable of pulling your terps that way without adding heat it would be great but often heat is nessesary wich degradedes terps

Hmm. Volatiles come off around 70F and majors around 140F without vac right?

Oef no that s under hard vacuum
Voliteles will come of at 70F but not that many

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Any results from that experiment?

that tends to be impractical at any reasonable scale and throughput.

Done lol insta: @justblazextractions