I’m personally using full mesh bubble bags, but I’d been looking for an excuse to own a set already. I personally think they work fine, but I’m sure there are more affordable options available that are better suited for this application.
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I’d imagine quite a bit of particulate is still present with these bags… I filter my alcohol through 30 microns then 1 micron so I don’t end up with any sediment prior to recovering my ethanol.
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- Pyrex dish or raise it onto a platform. When properly loaded, it won’t shake itself off.
I mean you can just ratchet strap it onto something and you’ll be fine
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We think alike
how to dry out material after initial flush? nitrogen?
is it possible to plug the drain spout and do extraction directly in the panda as opposed to lifting bag out of extraction vessel and then into panda? or is this not advisable?
Pandas are not floodable
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My Cryo bucket tek setup theres a 5 gal bucket inside the trash can surrounded by dry ice I’ll run 10 lbs with 4 gallons in 30 minuets and repeat
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What temps do you acheive with your bucket Tek?
Btw love the setup, never had any issues with Dry ice directly in my wash but then again I’ve never check the PH.
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Thanks @primO.Oil theres no dry ice in the etho it’s around the bucket
I use a spin lid so nothin get in there
Idk the exact temp my laser say err -38
It definatly makes a diffrence tho
My bottle neck is realy filters how do you filter 5 gal -40 etho super fast took me bout 2 hrs to run tho buchner funnel cold
I’m thinking some kind of keg filter from usa labs but still undecided
I rigged my hochstrum filter to pull straight out of a 5 gallon bucket. Takes about an hour to do 5 gallons at -80c.
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I always planned to do smth similar with buchners but never got around. When do you put the lid on - what’s the level of alcohol in filter? Do you also have a drip tube on the inside?
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Is that snow on the ground?
That’s one advantage for cryo extraction we won’t have in the south.
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Are you using vacuum or gravity for your Büchner? With vacuum and a good Büchner should be able to filter in minutes if biomass is in bags and Etoh only has particulates. With a sock filter and vacuum takes seconds only.
Yea gotta love Michigan winter I can leave dry ice in the yeti cooler outside for a week lol
I also leave material outdoor to help get it nice and cold
I pick up the whole trash can and take it in the lab and it keeps everything cold while I filter it
Yea I use a vaccubrand diaphram vac pumps flow rate thro buchner is ok but I’m trying to do 4 gallons cold it takes forever
with yea just particulates in the etho I use buble magic 220 micro bags to wash
I like it. I’m thinking I could use a big trash can with dry ice and a small trash can inside containing the biomass and Etoh. Easy peasy and cheap. Just get a cheap vacuum pump from harbor freight and a large plastic Büchner like this with filters and collection flasks and you are in business.
It brings the etoh ph down to 3.5.
Re: d/I directly in etoh.
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Please, treat it like medicine, not trash!
At a min, find yourself a food grade hdpe barrel for the biomass. For better heat transfer, get stainless.
A used beer keg should cost you less than $50, and you can remove the top to make a 15gal pot trivially.
You can also get all kinds of fancy with keg mods. Those $100k CUPs come with kegs…
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Great advice.
Thank you for keeping us on track.
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