This install is at a preexisting facility that was looking to improve their extraction operations and solve more than a handful of bottlenecks…Here’s a snapshot of the week
Equipment arrives on Monday
Set main EES Cold Ethanol Extraction and ASR Falling Film Solvent Recovery skids in C1D2 space
Set 2 ancillary skids in adjacent equipment room for electrical hook up and routing to C1D2 space
Set two chillers on exterior of the building
On site MEP piped in the chillers and routed all electrical by mid day Wednesday
By end of day Wednesday, chillers down to temp, EES electrical routed and all piping/fitting/gaskets/junctions OK’d
Thursday morning we were dry running the system with no issues
By Thursday night…everything was running without a hitch and we were neck deep in training making that sweet sweet oil
The collaboration between us and our client’s ensure every install goes as smoothly as possible…if you are prepared for the problems, nothing surprises you!
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Moving at #MACHSpeed sure feels a little different
Jake wrangling the nitrogen lines on the turbo
Ol’ ETS tried and true. Worked on these a few times and I’d say they are the most user friendly to teach with
Agreed the things fucking old, definitely need gaskets, nuts, bolts, swedge parts, ext.
We run this thing 24hrs a day and have 3 shifts of people using and abusing it. And that’s all before the weekend crew comes in.
I have had the conversation before with upper management about the need for a deep cleaning as a preventative maintenance, but there’s always a new priority that takes precedence.
Once a month (last Friday) I have my guys turn everything up to defrost the equipment. And we have a clean day. Whole lab, equipment, everything.
Daily CIP. After each run the evaporator is washed clean with usp ethanol, nitrogen sweep, then vacuumed with heat to remove the etho. Material filters are changed each strain. And if we’re running the same strain for several runs, I’ll have the filters changed every few runs, to prevent them clogging up. Gaskets, nuts, bolts, clamps are replaced as needed
Noob to hydrocarbon extraction and my first system upgrade, originally it was a c1d1 booth with a precision px1, blackmer compressor, and huber cs-100. Two weeks of downtime for the install and it’s back up.
Touch science 50/80 chillers, Huber cs-100, precision dewax column as a condenser, precision gc-5000 pump (blackmer) and pot condenser, 100#, 50#, 50# solvent tanks, arlin scale, 6x48 jacketed mat columns, 6x48 jacketed crc surge columns, two collection vessels, 20kw water heater for evaporators, 10kw plus julabo bc-12 for distill tank, 4x60 mol sieves, 4x60 n2 vac receivers, and crv pro vacuum pump.
I added some type T thermocouples for solvent/solute inline temp measurement, heater inlet/outlet temp sensors, and solvent/vacuum pressure sensors for pump control, monitoring, and vacuum pump auto control. Insulation is on the way…
Thanks to James and Josh at Open Source Steel for helping me piece this system together!
Here is a part of my small humble set up.
Looking to add a recovery pump to my closed loop and a oven.
I use vacuum chamber as it pretty much always 87 in my house.
Then if need to ramp more i a plate from.the risin press whit a probe inside the chamber.
Try to.learn as max as i can. I live in a area where people barely know about extract, Only hash.
Not me lolll
Use the lab for
Shatter, badder , budder ect.
Diamond/terp sauce
Ethanol extract
Rosin
Will be upping up big time in the next 12 month.
This was the start but thing start going real fast
I very well may be, but at least I know the difference between your and you’re (and that power supply boxes don’t belong anywhere near a hydrocarbon extraction unit of any variety). Can’t seem to find how your system is grounded either, or is that electric pump grounding it right to an outlet for you?
