I dont even know about it either. I just like to use whats in front of me ya heard
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I feel that, but if I were to setup for an active passive, I would want to make sure if I were to transfer heat within the jacket I’m using a thermal transfer liquid that won’t expand past the jackets parameters & end up with a bhofart claim
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Prv plumbed to a safe location should suffice.
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A system whitin a system right? I thought a lot about this when i was doing rnd on some granular AC and the crc started to heat up. That gave me the idea of turning my collection bowl jacket into a mol sieve to use the heat to recover. What happened was i opened my valve to dump into the fats catcher and flow into my crc as usual. I touched the crc to “feel” for a flow but it qas super hot instead. After shutting it down immediately i studied the crc and did a few experiments. I noticed butane in vapor form is what made it heat up the fastest and most. Thats why i got these ac mol sieve beads to give it a shot.
Loop the recovery through its own jacket. No need for heaters after that.
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Lol I did that in a glass column. Freaked me out
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First time I tried to mess with carbon in the early days of experiments before soxhlet made the crc, I ran through some straight carbon. And it got so hot that I left the room for a few minutes and creepered from the door until I saw it get cold from the incoming solvent.
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Lmao i did the same but once i thought about it i was like i have to diffuse this bomb before it goes lol. So u know how hot it can get then. Id say its more than enough for recovery
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More than enough heat.
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yup Indra’s system design utilizes the heated compressor outlet gas to drive recovery. Makes sense on paper, in practice it didnt work as well as he thought (in terms of getting fast recovery rates). Theres a few ways one can mod his system to achieve faster recovery while still integrating “waste” heats, but these mods essentially bypass his patent claims.
Lots of work going on quietly for the past year that will make commercialized LPG processes the most efficient way to extract and recover all kinds of oils/fats. (Not with Indra) Im know we aint the only ones ether and that makes me ohh soo happy. More than 3 ways to skin this cat and each has pros/cons for different style ops. In the next yr we will see a renaissance in the world of LPG oil processing systems design - this is what gets me out of bed each day.
Hell, even Henry Rosenthal in the 1940s had some clever and efficient recovery methods for his cotton seed oil propane recovery system that has principals one could apply today and be efficient “new tech”. Ive been tryna figure out why LPG processes didnt catch on back then and bypass Hexane as the solvent of choice. Maybe in the 40s the safety and engineering tech wasnt up to snuff to commercialize, maybe the price of Hexanes and tech was cheaper , idk. what is clear is that LPG makes a wonderful end product with the least amount of thermal history on the product.
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I’ve used the pure extractor and they did have the output of the pump go through the collection jacket. It worked, but was so extremely hot (if I remember correctly it would quickly jump to 160°F and almost always turn to black crude. Being that there was no way to regulate the temperature.
When I injected solvent through dry ice slurry it was so cold that it couldn’t heat the jacket and recovery just didn’t work until it sat at room temp for a while.
We just used N-tane, with propane you’re gonna need a much higher rated jacket than most people make when using it that hot.
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sounds like your extract was black. I could heat crc oil to 160 and it would be golden
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