Do large scale Ethanol Extractors use copper condensers or just stainless steel?

I used copper packing on my recovery still at 5gal scale.

Moved to copper column and condenser on my early keg based 15 gal still.

On both occasions that I tried recovering the last of the EtOH off the extracted plant material by distillation, the alcohol I got back was vividly blue. My assumption was Copper Sulphate. With the Sulphur presumably coming from proteins in the plant material (amino acids Methionine & Cystine).

So my vote would also be to stick with stainless.

Probably should have tried the GRAUS cannabis disorienter Supercritical420 & Future have been using. Washing Machine "Salad Spinner" tek

Couldn’t convince myself the wetted path was appropriate for Meds, couldn’t squeeze R&D funds to solve that from the ground up.

It never occurred to me to JUST use it for recovering the last bit of solvent. :thinking:

Looks like the CUP 15 has been ordered…