Was gonna say wouldn’t one of the biomass hemp dryer be able to be applicator then plummed to recondese the solvent
There is inevitable loss associated with any production scale operation.
Most hydrocarbon labs are pulling socks out WET to avoid sticking to material columns.
Each run wastes 10lbs or so out of 50…
Ethanol and CO2 are lowest impact, but the extracts are typically flavorless / overprocessed IMHO.
I’d say solvent loss is inevitable. Pick a low impact solvent if you care about earth. It’s just weed, I think we should be chasing the lowest impact, highest quality products.
But naw, we chase that bag right?
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Lowest loss I can achieve in cls is around 2-3 lbs per run
I was a dick to mother earth before I knew what I was doing, now I’m trying to be less of a dick.
Good on you sir. I was losing 5-10% per run. It just adds up damn quick when your cranking through tubes. Most big guys are blowing through these 100lb tanks even with decent recovery rates.
I accepted that ratio of loss for propane, I would not be comfortable letting that much DCM into the atmosphere.
Not a useful statement unless you also state the size of the run…
2lb per 5lb or 2lb per 700lb. Totally different.
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Fair enough lol, I should have added that as well for % ratio efficiency 
But yeah only 2lb solvent loss on 35 lbs of bio with 90-125lbs solvent running through.
I came here to say gasoline and after a quick lookup just to make sure nobody could possibly extract with gasoline, I realized that I was very very wrong.
So for the record gasoline has been done. a lot evidently lol.
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exactly!
people do the dumbest shit when attempting to get high.
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Something similar to this?
It’s essentially a screw press than you can also put under full vacuum and the entire thing has steam jackets so you can heat it up as well for the best chance of getting all your solvent out. It has two motors, the top one is a paddle mixer and the bottom (you can’t see in the pic) is the screw press.
It’s brand new sitting in my warehouse and we won’t ever use it.