not quite. although the solvent isn’t saturated, it’s also not fresh each time like it is with the soxhlet.
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Whoa… Sry I fundamentay misunderstood soxlet it seems as i thought that ypu recieculate via evaporation and then coolin the solvent then ist heated up again…
Dayum midnight writings…allways make myself look like a stoned ass
“gracias per il explanation”
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nope.
that’s absolutely how they work… but once you evaporate and condense, you have “fresh” (pure/without cannabinoids) solvent for each pass through your gin basket.
which you don’t have with the centrifuge.
it’s a great comparison. just not a perfect one.
if you ran the solvent through one of @MagisterChemist’s solvent recovery membranes between the fuge outlet and inlet, THEN you’d have
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That is the best idea I’ve heard in a very long time.
You’d want at least a couple of bag filters inline after the outlet but such a contraption wouldn’t be too hard to engineer.
… now I want a MGSSSE.
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Am I giving ideas to the big gunz now?
Hmm seems the late night has might… 
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I smell waterclear qwet around the corner 
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…and out from the spout came water-clear crude…
I’d claim “Texas gold”, but that’s apparently a felony
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Well then let’s get you one!
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This is what this community’s spirit is allbout… Grandious… 
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I think within about 4 weeks I’ll have just about everything on hand that I’d need to construct such a thing, assuming global logistics don’t make my life more difficult than they already have.
If you’re running a membrane system there’s no reason to run cold anymore.
A dry-loaded 800mm centrifuge should easily get into the 300lb/hr range or above. Call it 300 gallons per hour of solvent to be conservative, or three to four 4040 series membranes in the desolvation stage.
Good thing I’ve got two (three?) spare 800mm vertical scraper centrifuges on hand.
Who else wants one? lol
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Me, but I hear my credit isn’t that good there anymore 
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I’ve got access to one…but the damn thing wants 25kW at 600V, and again: I can nay get the power Captain!
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I can’t help you there, when it comes to electrons, I call professionals. Even my Electrical Engineer business partner calls electricians to do physical stuff.
Now that I think about it, we’re probably luck that I’m not the electrical one.
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Not to revive an old thread, but this is one of the more exciting developments in ethanol extractions since we started using centrifuges. Lol.
Thank you to everybody whos done the work.
We are converting our shitty chinese centrifuge to perform this fancy new QWET-fuge method. Unfortunately, it didn’t have any tri-clamp connections for a rotating spray ball. Instead we bought a weldable CIP spray ball and are going that direction.
It’s always fascinating to me how we move forward in one direction, and the basics keep helping us improve. This is such an obvious thing, but hard to see when we are deep in the weeds.
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Wanted to share a quick experience i had, i ran at -1c and sprayed for a period of 5 minutes (way to long in my opinion) but after a weekend in the freezer we had nothing fall out of solution. This was done on 5% shitty thc trim.
I am currently waiting for a few more parts to finish my setup but i would say having no fats or waxes drop out of solution is a big win! I also threw a small sample vial in my -110c cold trap and still nothing fell out of solution however my ethanol started to thicken up a bit from the overly cold temps.
Extract was a greenish in solution and black as crude.
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If you get it 10, 20 degrees colder, you should see that chlorophyll go away as well.
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My chiller is giving me issues all the sudden, it should be able to go down to -12c but keeps getting a low suction pressure fault. I have a tech coming to dig deeper than i was able to dig.
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If your tech can’t sort it out give me shout, I’m sure we could figure it out
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Thanks! just got a refractometer and am testing my glycol in a second. currently calibrating it. i think my chiller system has had to muhc makeup water get added over the 2 years of it running.
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That would make sense if the coil froze up
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