My love for building extractors (diy)

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I wish the title of this thread was the mentality of the forum. It was at once. Ego is a son-of-a-bitch. This thread holds true.

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Here’s a sketch…

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Just got off the phone with Emerson/Copeland America. Excited about this next project I’m working on. I’m building a custom evaporator to get away from my AV30 ffe. This unit will incorporate the Cross-flow Heat exchanger design, with direct refrigeration on a new unit using vapor injection technology to keep things running smooth during ultra-low temps with high head pressures. The system will evaporate up to 500 litres an hour of ethanol using 30hp condensing unit paired with a 96kw Hubbell heater. Will have CIP and all to allow us to stay GMP certified and work towards getting our FDA approval so we can ship internationally next year. I’ll post pictures next month when the custom pieces are done being manufactured.

I also designed a system that requires only 144kw of heating power and 60hp on cooling power and will evaporate over 1200L an hour. It will use ambient temp to run a good portion of the machine. Now that I’m back in Cali, the move now is to be the most efficient in power and consumables. 2025 will be a great year! Happy New Years everyone! Much love!

With all this being said, I will soon have a like-new gen 3.0 AV30 for sale that I’ll include Hubbell 36kw heater and Nordic 11.2 ton chiller and TACO pump. Asking $90,000 for it all. I also have other items that I haven’t used at all that will be for sale. Location is in NorCal. Thanks!

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Damn I hope you’ve got a membrane stage in front of that. If not, you’re wasting a ton more energy/opex than you need to be.

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I’ll be using this for hexane recovery. I wish to use membranes but haven’t found suitable membranes for my usage.

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That’s fair. There are a couple of acceptable-ish alkane membranes, but they are all extremely expensive, and we had the best results from designing our process in such a way that it didn’t require an alkane membrane that would exclude cannabinoids.

We got the cannabinoids out of the alkane a different way, then used a membrane to remove the other compounds that we didn’t want from the alkane, then sent the alkane back to extraction. That worked really well once we got it dialled in.

I was planning to validate a bunch of pre-commercialization alkane membranes for our industry, but then we moved away from traditional solvents and that project got shelved.

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Yes, I’ve heard of certain ones that could possibly work and you’re right, they were nearing $10k per. I would love to have some just for solvent recovery, even if it did leave 4-10% of the product in the “clean” hexane. I would love to get on a line with you and see what’s the best possible option. I do have some 4040 membranes I could use. Don’t need to winterize, just need solvent recovery.

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Shoot me a DM with your email or signal number and we can chat

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Interested as well :upside_down_face:

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My contact info hasn’t changed, ping me any time

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Ayyyye my boy got BVV Clamps lfgggg. Beautiful system by the way!

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Does anybody have calculated and quantitative proof that a cross flow hx actually reduces the amount of work preformed by the chiller? Or is this just strictly anecdotal? Or is this just strictly anecdotal? I know the concept is used effectively w steam turbines at the power generation level.

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I don’t have data to back up my claims. I just know that my chiller always kept up with my recovery and really helped on pre-heat.

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Any pics/updates on this project?

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Ah, @Tech1145, always here with the GIFs and gas, never the science.

Interesting that someone who claims my patents are not valid also spends so much time trying to reverse-engineer and publicly post variations of it. That’s the kind of energy you’d expect from someone who smells their own flatulence and calls it innovation.

If you truly believed the tech wasn’t novel, you wouldn’t be trying to discredit it — you’d just ignore it. But here we are, with you obsessively trying to make it public domain post-issuance. That doesn’t scream ‘prior art,’ it screams caught off guard.

Here’s a tip: when you spend more time trying to undermine than innovate, you’re not the inventor. You’re the footnote.

If anyone wants to challenge the validity of the patent, do it through the USPTO like a professional — not by waving a GIF around like it’s a peer-reviewed publication.

Until then, I’ll be over here, building the future. You can keep sniffing.

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