That’s bad numbers. It’s better off being used as a paperweight lol. I never answered you earlier because I wanted you to do some more research. I know you were under pressure and the lesson I wanted you to have is learning under these circumstances. We all had too.
Biomass - Needs to be COMPLETELY dried of water. Get a dehydrator or use an oven. Don’t decarb its unnecessary.
-Water will freeze around your THC. This is making a lower yield.
-The biomass needs to be in a vacuum bag or we use to use pillow vacuum bags. (Tip: put a napkin inside of the vacuum seal port. This will stop any biomass from letting the seal be completely closed.)
- I used a refrigerator, not a freezer. If a leak is present in the bag, then you will have moisture.
Your solvent is circulating water from the previous runs of biomass. You ever had a stage 10 clinger and you finally let her score? That’s how wet it is lol.
- Get a molecular sieve and housing ASAP. Do some research and know exactly where to put it and what kind of molecular sieve to buy. I think its 3A but it been a while.
-You need to bottom fil. But this will be a few more upgrades. Get a ball sprayer hemispherical end cap for the meantime. This will help give a better-uniformed disruption of the solvent on top of your biomass and will increase your yields.
-Never let the solvent stay stagnant in the column. Its always moving. When it stops you’re collecting impurities.
It sounds like you’re going passive. Remember this More energy----> less energy. You don’t need n2 assist. All you need is energy to flow the correct way. You’re cooling off the Recovery tank and sending it to more energy (heat) so here comes the tricky part. How do you solve this? Don’t freeze your recovery tank. Just give it a good ole ice bath. Buy a condenser coil and place it between your recovery tank and inlet feed to your column. Use a dry ice/isobath. Part 2. How to get get it from the coil to the column? This is where you need a dewaxing column or freeze your column in the freezer. Make sure you wipe out the interior of the column before filling it with biomass after you take it out.
I’m attaching my oven tek for shatter. But I give a lot of tips on the CLS process also. Make sure you’re packing your columns correctly. This is vital for good yields. Excuse grammatical mistakes. I
Humidity doesn’t stand a chance. Oven tek
I have a favor to ask well sort of an experiment. Can you get a cryogenic freezer vacuum bag? Take the dried biomass and place it inside of this. Take the bag and dip it in your iso/dry ice container. I want to see if you can flash freeze the biomass. First, get your client happy and come back to this. If I was running my old CLS still I would try it.