Anyone take Converted oil or Crude oil and do enough post processing, LLE, CRC, etc and successfully eliminate the need to do any distillation?
Been thinking it’d be great to get the oil light enough via CRC to avoid needing to distill altogether.
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Converted oil, no.
You can avoid distillation for crude oil with or without CRC via crystallization, but it would not be practical for us to avoid entirely . It really depends on what your end goal is.
Are you looking to have “distillate” to put sell as distillate carts, or is a more unrefined full spectrum cartridge that tastes like weed acceptable for your customers?
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This is a great place to start. What is your input material and what do you want to make with it?
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are you the one doing the conversion?
using which methodology?
the distillation?
how about the analytical testing?
you could always skip distillation and perform chromatography, that would probably yield safer meds.
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Great thought, the idea would be to use this for dabbing or in carts.
If you could do crude, it’d be for a full spectrum oil. For converted oil, it’d be to eliminate a step out of the process.
Don’t skip distillation on conversions unless you wanna run it through chromatography
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We’re using triiso and the distillation is easy overall but it takes so much time since we have a small SPD.
No analytical testing so we send the analytical testing out.
Is chromatography easier to perform?
And actual chromatography where you are collecting fractions of your cannabinoids and not just filtering for color.
But I can tell you now distillation is going to be less work and time and facility requirements than large scale chromatography.
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Never thought Of that. Can you describe the chromatography in layman’s terms?
Is it similar to a magsil column but with silica?
This isn’t overly technical of an explanation of the subject, but isn’t specific to canna
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This thread also may prove useful
This was a good read and the thread you linked to was as well. Thank you!
It seems to be relatively straight forward. Is it scaleable?
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to some extent…
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Scalable sure… affordable to scale compared to distillation? Absolutely not.
Learning curve is a bit steeper too. Do you have in house analytics? Because that’s pretty much required for doing method development and finding fractions.
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I see what you are saying. It looks scaleabke but SPD still seems like the slow but much more straight forward process
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Looks scalable but the other big cost is having max
Allowable quantities of Solvent in the space you plan to do large scale chromatography.
Engineering, Fire sprinklers and 3 hour fire walls are needed to even hold enough solvent in the room to do one run.
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I’ll add to that you’re usually running gradients unless you get an isocratic method so your solvent may not be reusable based on your method development and chromatography type (flash vs rp)
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Isolate is the new distillate. Dont even need anything fancy with fast crashing issues … Spin it in a bench top fuge.
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That trick works better if you’re not starting with CBD…
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Few more hot steps for CBD obviously but you can still get isolate pretty easy…