Average loss of cannabinoids from extraction to distillate

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Lets say you have some biomass testing at 12% total cannabinoids what would you expect your yield to distillate to be? What is an acceptable loss of overall cannabinoids and where are we losing the majority of them?

I recently tested some starting material and it came back 22% cannabinoids. After extraction we tested the material again and it was 1.06% cannabinoids. After a carbon scrub and decarb we had yielded just under 16% to crude, already a significant loss. I figure in the end I will hit around 10-11% to distillate but I’m scratching my head as to where the other 11% of cannabinoids could have gone. Just wanted to see if anyone is testing starting material and can say how much they are losing, if any, on average.

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first loss, followed by filter loss

thca = thc * 0.877

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There’s a couple threads around…

I think most people around here get 70% by the time their second pass is done from their thc-a initial content.

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I get the loss of the CO2:

mass(THCa)-mass(THC)=mass(CO2)
358.478-314.469=44.009

mass(THC)/mass(THCa)=0.877234
314.469/358.478=0.877234

So according to the title(sort of) is this your only conversion??

Conversion to THCa to CBNa AND CBN to THC losing 4H(1.007947*4=4.031788).

recap:
THCa to THC that’s ~0.877
THCa to CBNa that’s ~0.877
CBNa to CBN that’s ~0.982
THC to CBN that’s ~0.987
someone has logged data of these conversions “from extraction to distillate”? I would love if none would convert to CBN*, but I guess that’s just a dream.

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Cbn conversion with good vacuum is no more than 2 % in total

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Thanks, great, I take of a note of that. Do you decarb before or after extraction? Have you tried both?

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After tried both but thca dissolves better,less volume,and color remediation works better on thca crude

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Great, thank you.