Has anybody ever tried processing terpene rich trichome into rosin using a warm centrifuge yet?
It is true that the water makes them look better but to get a good taste you need to a rinse and clean.
After obtaining the heads you can still rinse.
Then you have a frozen hash and sieving system no germs can grow in, no bleed and no dust.
Using the forced air chamber could come before the static chamber. Tumble> then get sent into a forced air chamber after maybe coming from a high speed vibrating sift set-up. > static chamber with outer mechanical directional controls which is why I mentioned something like Foosball controls where you’re moving a directed rod and able to have free movement with full spinning of the rod but it’s just on rubber stoppers enough to slow down the amount of force you can put into spinning the rod. So imagine being able to do that with material to be static refined where you can move the material around in a controlled way to further refine your forced air refined material that’s been pre-tumbled and power sifted.
I do not understand the function of the rod and trays.
If you do a static separation, you do not need to have a elutriating milling rotary vibratory sieving machine(the word I have been looking for).
It is either one or the other.
It costs about the same to build but i guess sieving is much faster.
Btw how do the trichome heads break of the trichomestalks in the static process?
The forced air chamber from the beginning of the thread, a selfcleaning combination of a drum sieve and a fluidized bed can only be connected to a tumble sifter with milling bodies with air flowing downwards because air cannot really entrain the kief. It would just fall by gravity to fast at the optimum elutriation air flow.
So this disintegrating step does not really fit.
Connecting the operations is difficult and it does not make it faster since it is a batch process.
static is a refinement process post- sifting. read more here: Static Tek is now Automated - Solventless Clean Hash
Let’s not confuse tumbling.
In the beginning i have drawn the drum but now I talk about vibrating sieves.
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I think recirculating electrostatic separation in free fall is the shape choose to automate separation by charge.
I was thinking about separation tables with airflow up, sieves and static but I did not get any conclusion because there is a dense fluid bed inside.
At freezing temperatures, though, hardness of trichome increases, static charges diminish, and polishing trichome by vibration in elutriating airflow should be possible.
Maybe a spouted bed with draft tube is a better idea for kief.
We tried. Clumping of tribocharged particles is the issue. Try it t and let us know if you can figure it out.
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Can you tell me at which temperature you did the test?
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I tried transparency and being open source. Didn’t work out too well.
But now your report misses the parameter that would be important to know.
Maybe at even lower temperatures clumping of the contaminants can be prevented.
The venturi breaks them.
What do you think about continuous cleaning of the collector surfaces with belts and brushes and discharge hoppers or screws? It would be possible to run with less downtime for bigger batches.
There is a company that makes a device for fly ash, with belts. I spent a ton of money testing that thing. No luck. Look the reality there are a ton of ways to skin a cat. Many will work. However, they are expensive, difficult to clean, made for industrial volumes, or impractical for other reasons. Our freefall separator was the best way given our scale. Our favorite hater loves to point out that it’s stupid to collect off plates, that its not done this way in industry. This is true, but plastic recycling isn’t $3+ per gram or in such a small scale.
Decapitation of heads is easy, its an SOP mostly and not a machine.
Clumping is easy to control with static and the right RH/AW and equipment design.
Scaling static is also easy, we have a machine that does 10kg heads per hour. We can do 100kg if needed and we do have continuous trichome collection, all expensive AF but at that scale you should be well funded.
I stopped posting pics cause well MF copy everything. Research is expensive.
Anyone want to have a conversation, im all for it, albeit privately and under NDA. Im all for helping the little guy figure it out. Check out Triboelectric Tuesdays on Youtube, some of our early research is there.
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At 0Fahrenheit all static and stickiness should be gone when the trichome is still undried.
It depends on the moisture on their surface how fast the building static is discharged again.
Ice has a liquid molecular film on top until it get’s -38C.
For me and I am sure for others, too, it is of interest at which temperature the dust stops sticking or clumbing in a vibratory sieve.
The air flow and milling bodies deagglomerate and elutriate the particles comparable to an air jet sieve which is used for granulometric analysis of APIs that tend to agglomerate.
I am well informed about contact electrification. Thank you.
You ever take really sticky biomass and dry ice and then try to do the (Dry Ice Hash - Overgrow.com) shaking tech? It takes a solid amount of time for the biomass to become brittle. With that time passed water content builds up and the sifting process becomes slightly hindered by that moisture.
When you’re done you need to let the hash dry because it’s wet from water content that happens when dry ice is melting at room temp. Ice is ice, even dry ice makes moisture.
Which would take getting a custom sieve set that’s fully jacketed, get a chiller and start working on what temps do what.