Thank you for noticing! It was actually reworked with a 90 elbow directly after the photo. We just received these items after a long wait and had just installed them in the booth. There are a few more changes being done and I am sure many more in the future as we start using daily.
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Were in Paw Paw, Michigan and the booth is a C1D2 that is used for ethanol extractions. We have a larger C1D1 for our butane extraction. These are both EX proof units and inside a booth for double safety and also to isolate the noise and work load inside our facility.
Shoot I’m brand new myself. Learning and reading some great info here. I’m so grateful for the collection of knowledgeable and helpful mentors. I want to learn everything.
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Well ur at the right place to learn a few things that’s for sure…I’ve learned so much just from the post you replied to! I have a vault of knowledge now
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I am so glad to be here. I won’t be posting much yet, because I am so caught up in the reading and learning and I am super impressed with the collection of knowledge here. I don’t want to dumb that down. With that being said:
I have had no prior experience with extraction. I am pretty knowledgeable about bud in general but ,
I kind of inherited this CLS. But this CLS came completely disassembled. With hundreds of tri-clamps, ball valves, dozens of gaskets, and enough stainless steel parts to blow my mind. Before I dived into this I didn’t even know what a tri-clamp was.
But now, after some help and a ton of reading. I have an assembled CLS with a Crc column and I’m running some pretty nice stuff. But I want to learn more. Much, much, more.
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good on ya, and thank you for taking that feedback in the right spirit. i like the idea of EX proof units inside the booth to isolate noise, that’s clever. best of luck to you!
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No prob bud:) We are just getting started as a recreational processor and are very open to criticism of all sorts to make our processes better.
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you might want to make that fuge away from the wall and should consider nailing it to the floor. it doesn’t look sophisticated enough to have a vibration sensor on it, and if it gets even slightly unbalanced it will shake the hell out of that booth if it is touching the walls.
I’ve been to this disco before…
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Oh dammmmmm
Sounds like a cop 
Yeah, can’t be having unsafe conditions around centrifuges! Those things will kill your operators if you refuse to service them, like some companies I know.
I knew this one company that would let their centrifuge fault out 5-10 times a shift! Scary stuff!
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Oh man… I’ve been around a centrifuge too early and crudely built to have a vibration sensor. Suffice to say, that company considered its operators disposable meatshields.
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Seems like a handy place for an eye wash station…
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the idea is you trip and wash your eyes on all the moisture that drips on the floor back there
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Lol ya it was already installed before we moved in the equipment in. There’s another one on the other side of the booth and one right outside the booth.
So we ain’t lackin
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Hello Nurse!
This sticker came with the booth.
Eye wash was relocated to outside wall.
Emergency shower was right outside the door. Over the door. A spot I’ve used repeatedly
because it saves room in many installs, and doubles as a wook extinguisher when installed outside the booth…
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Haha ya if there wasn’t another one inside the booth about 3ft away I’d relocate that one. But at the same time I do kinda like that one there because we spend a lot of time packing and unpacking columns literally right there. We have that one, one about 3ft away inside the booth, another directly outside the booth and two eye wash stations in the post processing section. So I’m no more than 10 feet from one of 5 eye wash stations at all times
And luckily I don’t get any moisture on the floor until I turn off my chillers for the night and it’s all evaporated by the next day when I come back
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Thank you very much! I was wondering if I should get the hammer drill out and bolt it down. I have not ran it cold yet, but upon my initial runs with hot soapy water to clean it out I was actually impressed with how it was very stable. I am sure however that once it gets weight and it is cold that it will be a different story. BTW are you injecting cold ethanol straight from your chiller or are you using the jacket to chill?