I think people are ditching ethanol, not distillate. Ethanol has a lot of drawbacks, mainly its miscibility with water and high enthalpy of vaporization/specific heat.
There are some people in the no distillation camp, but I think that’s a shallow dream.
ok, that makes more sense to me. I’ve heard the water solubles are kind of a bitch with ethanol extraction, but the idea of all our D9 distillate being made from decarb’ed diamonds just seems crazy to me. that’s a lotta fuckin diamonds coming off mid grade trim.
I know it can be done, just never thought of it as “the way” ya know? especially when dealing with older material.
Agreed. Heptane/hexane outclass ethanol by a wide margin. While you do have to dewax considerably, the fact that you can boil >10x heptane for the same energy cost is way better. The small amount of recovery you do after dewaxing doesn’t seem that bad, especially with these membranes I hear so much about.
Butane can also rival ethanol quite quickly with enough tubes and for a comparable amount of capital.
It seems that ETS has acquired Delta, but currently their machines are not easy to sell, and there are not many ways to extract ethanol using centrifuges on the market. Not sure if my understanding is correct.
Me neither…
Extract ethanol?
Extract with ethanol?
How many ways do you need?!?
Agreed. the mother liquor then goes through a couple of rounds of distillation. 1st for terpenes, then for cannabinoids.
Delta got bought by another company and that umbrella company is not doing so hot. But also there’s so many labs closed, if I wanted to buy a Delta, I would easily be able to find one used for half the price. Sometimes even new in box! And also chinese centrifuges can really be quite nice. I know plenty of people using them for years with great success. Why buy a new Delta in these circumstances. ALL equipment is actually contracting just because of what a glut of used equipment there is.
Since when is ETS doing poorly?
I was talking about their earlier buy out by Gibraltar. The ETS re-buy just happened last month, we’ll see if it breathes some more life into them.
Definitely trust the boys that started out as pinnacle stainless more than some hedge fund cunts.