Im building a double wall chamber of nirosta steel (maybe diff name in english) to extract in -80 ethanol. A circulating chiller will chill the inside chamber via the double wall.
in the 5 liter chamber i will put 1:10 etho and grinded dry flower, close a lid that will include a stirrer and temp sensor
at the end i will pour it all out straight into a vacuum filter.
any thoughts of what radios this should be?
or any thought\comments at the planning?
That works out to about 20mg oleoresin per ml EtOh which is near the solubility I have seen for THC in EtOH azeotrope at cryo temperatures.
At -20 F freezer temperatures the solubility goes up a lot.
I’m getting good recovery from 100 grams of biomass with 2.5-3 liters of EtOH in three extractions with the third having a chromatographic top layer.
That works out to a little over 3 gallons per pound of biomass if I haven’t sampled too much product.
I could probably back off to two extraction cycles with only about a 5% loss but I get what I pay for.