Are you isolating in your lab?

Nah, pretty sure the XD design or one of the others
uses lenticular filters.

They donā€™t, Itā€™s their infinity filter. But you donā€™t need anything more than a plate and a mesh at the right size.

I just think that picture looks like a lot of work to recover yield out of the 3d filter. But if it works it works :man_shrugging:t2:

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Iā€™m patenting a unique process for THCA isolate production.

The main advantages are itā€™s scalability (example: 30-35 kg input oil processed in a 50 L reactor) and very high yield (>90% of available THCA). High quality terps are separated as a byproduct, which is also a very nice thing. There is a separate small amount of byproduct mother liquor which contains minor cannabinoids and decarbed THC. The main yield from the process is brilliant white THCA, the crystals being a similar size to table salt or granulated sugar.

The process does require dry-ish oil for the input and canā€™t be done in-line while dissolved inhydrocarbon solvent. But itā€™s more efficient that the typical cold crash because you can process a shitload of batches at once and also get a higher overall THCA yield.

Iā€™ve been winding my way through the patent process for several years now. Hoping to finally have the patent granted in the next few months. :crossed_fingers:

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@vortal @DiNKLB3RG

Thank you for pictures
You guy s are way ahead on this one
And hopefully in time I can come up with something so sufisticated
Althou diamonds at scale would be my aim

RoguelabLeader

Dec 2022

Vessel I am trying this on
Hope the rpm is sufficient to keep it all afloat and not stuck on the walls

Without an impeller as with a small impeller it was not much of a succes :upside_down_face:

Althou the ln2 works well with a 50 L Buchner to rinse clean
But yeah it s been a thoughroad
:joy::joy::joy::joy:

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I don t see any grounding wires to your gear ! Argggg.

GROUND you GEAR !!!

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lol we did shortly after the full install no worries. Plenty of wires going to a copper rod drove into foundation

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Ahhh good job my friend
I can t say it enough ground your gear
I would be lying if I always do
But several flame throwers I made were deu to static it s a bitch and no fun

Welcome to fiture4200! Good luck with your patent!

Iā€™ve been messing with small batch isolation using lots of different techniques, I was kinda a fan of a simple bucket tech crash I was using, but my homie wound up wanting to scale up so he hit up a decent shop for parts, and built something outta spares. Basically did the same thing as you but start way smaller.

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Our design doesnā€™t use a ā€œlenticularā€ or filter sock for a specific reason. You canā€™t wash your isolate properly with that design.

We have something new coming out Q2 that will allow faster filtration and allow isolate retrieval with no mallet tech :grin: We provide consulting on isolation if you want help building one or need the parts to build one! Obviously we also have certified turnkey units that have all the features you want in various sizes.

Also, we will be releasing some new diamond mining tech and heat transfer tech that will be game changing! Stay tuned!

I was curious if you have pulled a full panel of the isolate finished in your isolator machines. Is there any lipids left over or carried over to the isolate side? Or how much d9?

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Waiting on panels for isolated powder and decarbed material is also out for a panel. This machine was designed to be in line to an already established process. The likelyhood of lipids being present is highly unlikely. Id be willing to put money on the result being 99.9*

Also, I donā€™t think people realize how much separation is possible with silica and a couple crc columns. You can push over a thick ass silica cake for a water terps fraction, and then free the thc-a from the solid phase ā€¦

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Worked decent, but everything beneath the filter still needed to be cleaned up.

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It depends on your SOP. We see 99%+ on isolate tested by our clients. No D9. Some terps left is usually what we see.

Long columns like that donā€™t work well because the length and weight of the rod. Your impeller can hit the sidewall when your volume gets high.