Mixer-Settler Cascade for Fat/Wax Removal

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@mcpikeig

However, in beer brewing a low tech way of separating out the mash solids is to induce a whirlpool in your brewing vessel which causes the solids to accumulate in the center. That seems like a kind-of low tech centrifuging that could be used for separation of bulk solids before a settling or filtering step.

So a revision to my proposal then:

1. Slurry tek in large reaction vessel
2. Beer mash separator to remove bulk solids from slurry. Additional centrifuge will still be necessary here to fully recover solvent, but the mash separator is a creative way to scale the slurry tek.
3. Mixer settler system to skim off big portions of fats. Would there be residual CBD caught up in these? could chromatography on the skimmed fats recover that?
4. required filtering for color and small particles. I envision that inline filters would manage this, but don’t know for sure.
5. Finally, the solution goes through FFE
6. Distillation turns any crude into usable products right?

Again I am only proposing this for discussion. I have not ran anything like this. But I do know that there is a lot of garbage biomass on the market that if a scaled solution like this would work could handle it. Even if the yields are less than 5%. I am in the midwest and farmers here would grow 1-20 acres. Some would actually mow it down with a discbine and then run it through a chopper stalk and all. No matter what we do this will make gross crude. I hope to hear what you have to say on this. If it can be effectively dried and doesn’t mold on them, even if the yields are low it would be a shame to burn it all.