I’ve got a line on an “unlimited” amount of CBD hemp kief.
I"m humming and hawing about whether or not to move some small scale equipment to the site (couple hundred lb/day).
The issue is that the it’s only 1.8% cbd (x-59 or something?)
Now I’ve got pretty unlimited access to alcohol. I was thinking about using some standard freezers, and just shooting for -10c. Hope for maybe a 20-30% cbd/vol?
Maybe refine further with winterizing/distillate/dcvc?
Is this a project worth tackling? Obviously it comes down to numbers, but does anyone have experience running this kinda garbage? lol
Often hemp like that will have a high THC:CBD ratio. So that’s something to keep in mind. I’ve seen crude from hemp like that that was 30% CBD and 10% THC. The strain was ‘Colorado Gold’
Yeah it’s x-59 garbage lol. But it’s pretty much free… Just deliberating the value of time.
If i evaporate off the ethanol at ambient pressure the stuff will be boiling at 78C, is that going to have some degredation issues? Do I need to run it under vacuum?
I don t know what type of still You want to use but a simple Home Bree still often works faster When a small cfm singel stage vacuum pump is attached for iT sucks the vapors treu the Condenser
Cool does iT have a agitator like a magnetic stirrer or an overhead stirring device ?
If not Trow in a bag of marbels to let the cooking proces go more controled
Like booiling Stones in a flask
And adding Some suction vapor flow can also speed up the proces
I ran 1900kg of X59 that tested at 1.5 to 1.6% CBD. I use my custom built LCO2 extraction system. I ran the 1900kg in 22kg batches in my system, so that was like 85 separate runs. My net oil% out was 1.34%. So the 1901.36kg made 25.52kg of oil. My oil test at 40% CBD, 5:1 THC, and tested positive for 25 some terpenes.
In short, yes and no to your question. My extraction system I have built to run 70lbs of hemp in about 2 hours is perfect for low grade hemp like this.