No, we make our own systems in our 25,000 square foot facility located near San Diego,California. we also offer integrated distillation equipment both large and small scale and are specialist in fractional distillation and purification of unique products including herbal extracts. We do our own internal designs and also offer technical consulting. we are NOT a Chinese company and we know some people prefer China since it is lower cost but we are very economical and can compete with China
Whats the price tag on your 80-100L per hr recovery system?
@DrJosh are the pictures above supposed to be your solution for recovering 80-100liters of Ethanol an hr? Can you explain where the required heating or cooling is coming from?
Or where the 100liters of Ethanol is coming from or leaving to?
If they are NOT supposed to represent the system mentioned below, why exactly were they posted?
@QGA asked for pictures in response to the above. So the logical assumption is those pictures are supposed to be your recovery solution.
I don’t see how either unit shown can recover 100l an hr for more than 2min as pictured, nor do I see anything approaching the required heating or cooling.
Can you please clarify the relationship between the pictures, and the unit you’re suggesting the OP purchase from you to recover 80-100liters per hr.
Am I looking at two stills? Where does your feed go? Is the stainless tank your trap for liquid or do you put the thing in a trash can full if dry ice as a vacuum trap? Not much condenser going on there, looks like a libig in the back with a reflux condenser to catch vapor. How much did you say you were able to process? Is this a batch process?
Thank You. That makes a lot more sense as a response to @QGA’s request for photo’s.
I would have thought @CannaChemistry comment would have alerted you to the disconnect.
no, you’re not. nor are you using wiped film evaporators at all for this purpose.
the pictures you posted were not of your recovery solution…(for some reason)
putting together your own wiped film units is great. as is advertising them here, but posting pictures of them in this context is confusing.
OP did not state distillate as an endpoint, and until @QGA corrects me, I believe he was asking for pictures of your ethanol recovery system…because there were none on your website.
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You are looking at one still and the recover apparatus to effectively recover the ethanol and make sure it doesn’t disappear to the gods.
There are actually 4 condensers there but the picture doesn’t show it that well. We try to make things a little more professional.
Continuous system, system will do about 50-80 liter/hour
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So the rbf in the corner is the reciever? Where dose it go from there?
When you say continuous system, how are you retrieving product?
Is that also managed in a continuous manner, or would semi-continuous be a better description of the process?
Yea I was looking for a solvent recovery system!
You see the condensers on that rig? I’m not sure they have enough surface area to process 80 liters per hour. You think the reflux condenser is completely loaded under normal operation?
we have a continuous unit. we have two designs. one we are selling right now to customer and another rather unique design that we are putting together that would have allow contact time, and gently and continuously distill out your solvent. it would be continuous. super cool system
there are actually three condensers and an after cooler on the unit. we would just to need what temperature you want to distill at and what temperature you what solvent to be cooled down to
we have two designs. one we are selling right now to customer and another rather unique design that we are putting together that would have allow contact time, and gently and continuously distill out your solvent. it would be continuous. super cool system
I see the condensers, all three. They look tiny compared with other units I see. Care to post specs like length and diameter of the horizontal condenser? What temp / flow rate is your water in your condenser? Is the one shown capable of continously operating?
so you gave us a description of an 50-80liter per hr continuous unit, that doesn’t match the pictures either?
after having posted pictures of a wiped film unit when asked about the same ethanol recovery solution?
Why would you do that? It raises all sorts of red flags for me.
Note: emphasis in quote is mine.
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I apologies for the confusion. Please understand I work with manufacturing a multitude of units. Wipe film, ethanol distillation, ethanol extraction, chillers, decarb etc. I do a lot of custom fabrications work. The pictures are just meant to give you an example of what I do. I can make anything to spec that you need. Again - pictures - just an example. Pictures are not going to match with what we are discussing as there are a lot of modifications that can be made. I am happy to talk with you more about very specific specs on different types of units. I am just trying to share my knowledge on equipment manufacturing and what I have done and can do.
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ssuming whole plant at about 10%, you can probably reuse your solvent 4 or even 5 times. so you can get away with 25gal a day at your lower limit, and might want to look at 100gal a day to give you room for expansion.
Really ?
Reuse solvent as to wash several biomass batches with same ethanol before evaporating off the ethanol
Ever did inhouse analitics😀 On how much cannabinoids are left on biomass ?
Does the extraction power of etho go down ? Say at wash #4/5 ?
have you read the bucket tek thread?
@Photon_noir probably has analytics on this. I plan on generating them once I get my 755 spun up. pretty sure @Pharmer_Joe has data too.
this is not a lossless process. you loose solvent to each batch of biomass (less with a 'fuge). that solvent has more cannabinoids per ml on each pass. at some point (depends on input potency), the amount left behind by the increasingly saturated solvent means it’s time to switch to fresh solvent rather than throw away more cannabinoids.
total yields will absolutely be less than if you do not reuse your solvent on subsequent batches of biomass, but it you can cut your solvent (and hence solvent recovery) needs by 75% or more, it is almost certainly a win.
YMMV based on input potency and how you get your solvent off the biomass.
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A tread i started before i am aboat to go back to the hills Where most of My lab is and Will do Some basic research and post that gw and farmer Joe are mentors of the first hour back When 80% cannabinoids was king😀
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