we need to be able to dry 200000 pounds but that is a minimal amount we’ve calculated we will be able to grow there should be a 400,000 pounds if we have a good crop we’re looking to dry it and store it properly but I come from Colorado it is very dry out there where I’m at the climate is very very moist 90% humidity we can’t just leave it in a barn
yes. but I’m unfamiliar with that extraction method
Buy the righ barn!
So familiarize yourself with it!!
If you can’t substitute heptane for butane or ethanol and see the SAME process, you need to do a lot more reading before taking on a project of this magnitude.
that’s what I’m doing I think ethanol is going to be our solvent
How much biomass do you want to extract in a 24hr period?
You started with a 100ton crop. You’ve now suggested 200ton and “the sky is the limit”.
Is that imaginary biomass wet when you guesstimate it’s mass?
Have you looked at futures hemp processing spreadsheet? There is a link to it on the ethanol white paper page linked above.
It puts the cannabis it the tube
It runs the solvent over the cannabis
It distills the solvent off the cannabinoids
It goes again
Solvent agnostic.
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just 2 be clear.
100 ton is the minimum amount of biomass we will have without purchasing any, and that would be at one pound per plant we are going to purchase as much hemp as possible the extract facility is going to be built to the specifications of the extraction equipment. and yes the sky is in fact the limit my employer has the money they have been looking for extraction machines that would process the largest amount of hemp currently available in the industry I am just now starting to help them look for the equipment but they also need a drawing room to keep up with demand
I have no imaginary biomass it sounds like you’re in a bad mood I feel like you’re kind of being rude I could be wrong but just to make it clear I’m not full of s*** and I’m just trying to help my employers out they asked me for help I’m trying they have an unrealistic timeline but they have the money to make it happen
Rude? Or failing to sugar coat?!?
What you are is asking is $50,000 consult imo. You do not appear qualified for the task. I’m not either. But at least I know that.
Your failure to answer basic questions (eg are you giving us wet or dry weight) is certainly not helping.
I’m not saying your full of shit, I’m asking for clarification on your proposed scale.
If you have not imagined the amount of biomass you intend to play with (5x diff between wet and dry) how can anyone hope to help you?
I’ll ask again if you’ve viewed @Future’s hemp processing spreadsheet.
Consider it rhetorical
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You may want to suggest to your employer to hire on a professional consultant as a co-director on the project. Someone who has been involved in the design & build out of a lab this size before. This will make things much easier for you.
I’m sure folks here can offer some suggestions and references for that.
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I said I need to dry it. so yes dry. we my possibly extract terpenes first. but we will need it dry to extract properly with ethanol but really I’m looking for recommendations on drying 200,000 lb at a time correctly pinnacle stainless has a machine that we may be purchasing quite a few else but I would like to just run one machine as possible and just looking for recommendations that’s all if they want to hire a consultant they can they asked me to try to help so I’m asking people it’s definitely out of my league but that’s what this page is for isn’t it
Bollocks!!
If you need to dry 100 ton, then you are imagining 100ton of wet biomass!
Which is 20ton dry.
If you are imagining 100ton dry biomass, your looking at drying a million lbs
yes. I see how you got confused. my bad. yes a million lbs! htf do we do that in 95% humidity
No. I did not get confused. Despite the fact that you refer to drying as “trying” and “drawing”.
You failed to answer direct clarifying questions. Repeatedly.
that won’t get you the response you’re after
Your boss doesn’t expect much do they?
Dry me a million pounds of cannabis, sharp, then design me a better lap…
lap? see auto correct.
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see https://deutscheprocess.com/
but you knew that because you’ve already looked at @Future’s General Hemp Processing Equipment Spreadsheet
Mad710Skillz. Where are you building the facility and if you have a large budget we can help in consulting for that. DM me with your number and we can go over options.