No one ever said it tasted like hte made w tane or pane though
Yes sir hte is the best. Can’t beat tane pane mix ran dry ice cold .
I’ve yet to see anything like hte but hte
Maybe hemp hte can get the prices down if they can do that. Some great strains this year
Best? Really?
Ive had high quality results with some of my experiments that are based around the freeze, pump, thaw degassing method.
Ive been talking about using propane as a stripping gas for a while now, gotta nut up about it sooner or later. Other wise inert gas’s have worked well. GW Pharm’s hot gas extraction patent has some good info: WO2002089945A2 - Processes and apparatus for extraction of active substances and enriched extracts from natural products - Google Patents
Hte is better than em all…and I prefer my blends over anything else now.
But some the strongest ones were steam
I’ve always wondered how running a hot solvent vapor would work for terp extraction. Basically just distill your solvent through a packed material column, then recover the solvent with as low of a temp as possible.
Edit: I also imagine you’d want a jacketed column that you could heat too.
Y’all mean like @Apothecary36’s pentane steam distillation Tek:
Really want to try this one still, I bet it works fucking great
Yep, exactly like that. I just harvested and am getting ready to do a run soon. Imma try it.
I wonder if DME would work well for that application as well. Or chloroform maybe. I feel like pentane might still be too close in properties to a lot of our desirable compounds than is ideal (then again that’s probably why “steam” distillation works well with them)
As in similar a similar boiling point? So the goodies would come out with the pentane during solvent removal?
And isn’t that mz12 crap DME?
Right, likely to lose the goods while purging the solvent. I had never heard of it being pitched as a butane alternative till you said that lol.
I thought DME was immiscible with water but I must have been mistaken, I imagine that’s a useful property for this method to allow using fresh frozen/fresh material.
From google:
“Diethyl ether is miscible with water only in small amounts (up to 6% or so).”
If I’m off base here correct me haha. Not a scientist by any means.
Google again in regards to DME:
“Dimethyl ether (DME) is a synthetically produced alternative to diesel for use in specially designed compression ignition diesel engines.”
Perfect! Must have been thinking of diethyl ether. Maybe @Swet254k can give it a try, I hear he has a barrel of the stuff
Sent in a sample to get tested, I wanna see what’s in my “terps” I’ll share results when I get them.
I remember reading about it on trollitup or some shit years ago now at this point and it seemed boof for a butane alternative. And they kept pushing it as ‘organic’. Lol
I imagine it has it’s uses, but those were bs claims back then.
Worst terpenes I’ve ever smelled were extracted with dimethyl ether. I’ve only had terps extracted with this solvent once but they were so bad I don’t think the solvent was doing it any favors. Also extremely dark.
Deep vac + condenser
Exactly, can even do it in a closed loop manner, recycling the same solvent through the material if required as well.
Ive tried it with my regular butane blend, put about a pound of gas through a column, didnt get anything but could be done better, probably didnt get the gas warm enough. Jackets everywhere is def key, but I think pre warming the gas in coil would probably be wise in addition to jacket temp control.
I think that perhaps pressure vs decreased might have some good possibilities.
This is my favorite subject.
yeah dont need nothing fancy!
Me too!!!
Hot propane vapor. Then stick some jimmied terp condenser on the separator when it comes to boil off
Exactly, im thinking refrigeration like path. Hot gas through material at higher pressure then forced through a small orifice into reduced pressure condenser, flash freeze out the aromatics whilst leaving the propane as gas.
They also say if you thought of it someone else has. Not sure how i missed this thread back around the time i thought i was onto something.
Lifes been crazy. Never made time to dick around with this one
I’m doing some forced RnD with ether, not extracting flower with it. More like a vehicle for filtration if the terps alone. I made a thread on it. Check it out give me your input. Also those terps I refined had a nice lemonene smell and didn’t look dark, rather reddish instead.