What size micron bags are y’all using for winterization ? Are you seeing the bags foul quickly? Or having to use like 5+ housing in a row to step it down from 200-10 ?
Interested as well since i just bought 3 more filter bag housings. I’m doing hexane, but I’m assuming you are talking about ethanol extraction?
I planned to do 25, 10, 1
For winterization?
Ya man good luck. I got 10 gallons through my 25 and 50 micron bag before it totally clogged
Disclosure I was not working with Heyes filters, but figured my input could potentially be helpful…if not then just ignore this post, please.
When I was working in a lab extracting hemp flower and biomass with cold (-80C) ethanol we were doing the following:
Flower/biomass goes in 75-micron bag inside extractor to be spun in cold ethanol
Gets pumped through #2 filter bag housing with a 5-micron filter bag
Goes into a 16" double stacked 1 micron DE lenticular filter (can be triple stacked or phased with coarse modules on top and finer on bottom)
Goes to a 12" double-stacked AC lenticular module (can be triple stacked and PSI dropped for increased color remediation)
Goes to a 0.2-micron filter assembly to hopefully catch any AC that possibly made it through
We typically got at least a few thousand gallons before we would backflush or replace filter modules.
Ya that’s different. That’s not dealing with any fats or winterization. I would hope you’d get a ton, your only catching any media that was pulled off the lenticular plates and made it through the bags