You can’t perform your distillation without collecting (tossing) them…
search (here) is trivial: Search results for 'heads tails' - Future4200
but even the all Gnowing one will tell you what’s up if you use “heads tails distillation”.
That is (most of) the DATA required to do the mass balance…now do the math and show (yourself) how you’re doing. maybe read some of the hits to “mass balance” first. for simplicity, just use TAC rather than the individual cannabinoids at first. you MIGHT find you’re loosing one cannabinoid in particular as a given step, and that MIGHT be a feature, so looking at them individually is not unreasonable.
how much of what you put in the vat did you get out? (initial extraction efficiency)
how much did you leave behind (you need weights as well as potency)?
did you loose cannabinoids at winterization?
are they in your “fats”?
how much did you loose to distillation?
where are they? (heads? tails?)
the goal is to know where every gram of your CBD(a) went. as a percentage of the CBD that went in. which is more informative than the number of grams of stuff you got at each step eg: you lose mass at decarb, you DONT lose cannabinoids. just following raw extract yield makes decarb look lossy…
the math has been worked here MANY MANY times. including upthread.
I’d do the first one for you, but I’d have to guess at how many kg you put in (10 this time?!?). looks like about 85% efficiency on you primary extraction. need weights to be truly accurate (because your spent biomass weighs less than your input did)
happy to help anybody get the concept of: follow the cannabinoids, not the cadabinoids…. because imo it is a critical step in optimizing this game.
having in house analytics is a great start. if you don’t understand mass balance, you’re not actually leveraging it correctly.
yep, sample prep matters. search on the subject, then ask questions. if you’re lucky some kind soul will (has already) dropped their SOP.
…and 50% over all efficiency from biomass to distillate is not unheard of for CO2.