I am trying to find a way to dry out my “spent biomass” after washing and then do an ethanol wash for crude but I am having a hard time on how to approach this.
Freeze dryer doesn’t hold that much and seems messy, what about spreading out on screens to air dry? Ooo or will one of those fancy panda spinners work? I feel so terrible wasting this stuff out
Would a panda spinner remove enough water to then do an ethanol wash? Or would it still need to be air fried further? I am worried that the panda will also compact the biomass making extraction even harder but maybe I’m overthinking lol
If you still go the ethanol route, you will definitely still want to air dry after centrifuging. Spin drying will help speed up the air dry process, but will leave too much water behind for a decent ethanol extraction unless you dry it all the way. Screens on a rack with airflow in a low humidity room should do the trick.
I never tried extracting post bubble washed material. I am thinking it would make crude with a lot of undesirable plant waxes and fats. I guess that doesn’t matter after you distill it, but for low budget people like me without an spd unit, it probably would.