Cascade Oven Tek

https://future4200.com/t/oven-tek-sop-criticisms-welcome/127/8

Hey Sidco,

I noticed you said you were a consultant for Cascade. I have been working with Cascade, Dan and Mary, for awhile now and love all of the equipment. I have a few questions for you, that I posed to Mary this morning as well:

On the Cascade website, https://cascadebotanical.com/resources/ask-cascade/, they have a FAQ page that talks about oven SOP. In their SOP, it says to keep the pumps running during the entire purge process, and that the total purge time is 8 - 12 hours. They talk about the theory of locking off vac just traps the solvent within the oven and it will settle back into the product.

In my experience, and based on the Oven tek criticism welcome thread as well, I have always needed a 3-5 day purge, and do not run my pumps the entire time. Why is cascade saying that, with their equipment, I can achieve a totally purged product within 12 hours. Mary stated it was due to Cascade using larger valves and connections, larger pumps, etc. They also recommend keeping the vac pumping the entire time… Wouldn’t this off-gas the THC with a large pump?

I am currently using TVO-5 Double ups, and each two ovens has one Agilent idp7 (the complete package “pro” setup). Would I be safer to use a smaller pump if I want to keep it running during the entire purge?

I appreciate any help. Thanks for this community, I am loving it!

Do you mind if I inline this PM back to the oven tek sop thread? Honestly great post and I would love to reply for the community, otherwise I’m happy to answer here.

No problem at all… I was just afraid of sounding like an idiot, lol.

Feel free to revise/edit my text as necessary, or if easier, I can just rephrase and reply inline to the original thread… your call, just let me know.

Thanks in advance.

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