Its Back and Worse then ever. The Dreded BENZENE!

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Just shoot an email over to Sales@illuminatedextractors.com and we will get you a quote over. They need a special housing that we make to go along with it.

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I spoke to professor Ryan Lively of Georgia tech and he says he has a membrane that can allow butane and propane through while blocking benzene, toluene, xylene etc.

Quite a road to getting that developed into anything but call me in year if this is still proving a repeat issue, lol.

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That would be cool. Blocking to what degree is an interesting question. This is a ppm-pbb problem so if itā€™s effective to that degree that is very impressive

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Good question. He probably doesnā€™t know either. Pay him 50k and iā€™m sure heā€™ll find out for you.

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Making some great progress on improving BTEX and safety standards at ASTM.

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I bet by 2040 you guys will have Medusa almost figure out

Bang up job!!!

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Have you tried the cortera product we supply? Its filtered specifically for fast crash and medusaā€¦ You can check it out here.

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Whatā€™s it missing that the others have that cause Medusa?

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How to Stop Medusa: Cortera Gas, X-GAS and the Chemist from Texas

Updated: Dec 3, 2023

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So again

What is the compound causing Medusa that isnā€™t in the new product?

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The 100% certainty is that hydrate inhibitors were being added to the raw product in early stages that caused major issues in crystallization. Our solution targets any oxygen-containing compound, employing a type of chemical reaction to bind to the entire molecule. This may seem like a blanket fix, but itā€™s a specific and targeted approach, addressing the root causeā€”the oxygen atom. For diethanolamine, we employ reactions to uptake nitrogen compounds attached to alcohols or hydrocarbons. While we use liquid-liquid extraction and chromatography at the bench-top for analysis, these methods are not used on a large scale during processing.

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So it was various amines?

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  1. Can anyone post analytical results / chromatograms verifying Cortera butane has < a ppb benzene?

Regarding medusa/fast crashing:

  1. Are there any analyses of Corteraā€™s starting product that shows the compounds that cause Medusa in the gas along with same analyses of the processed butane showing they have been removed?

  2. Has the Cortera gas been completely effective in resolving the medusa and fast crashing issues.