Passive faster than active?

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K, I’m done being a salty bitch and getting in slapfights on internet forums (for now). I didn’t read the whole thread and this actually is a really good point.

This is also exactly my experience as well. It also doesn’t preclude the fact that optimizing the time saved vs equipment run time will result in running your recovery the majority of the time in a passive manner. Yes time is money, but you know what else costs money? Maintenance and wear-and-tear on a big ass ballin’ recovery pump/turbine.

The beauty of these discussions is that you get to dive down into the deeper nuances of these topics rather than just oversimplifying it to “The oil and gas guys have pumps that would blow your bizzy bee out of the water”. Maybe when we get cannabis companies with revenues that rival Exxon or Shell or BP we’ll get to see some of this tech in the industry. :upside_down_face:

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not too wise…as long as the thermal load being taken from the collection pot is less than the chilling on the recovery tank can offset that should be fine…but as soon as some gas runs through hotter than that and isn’t instantly condensed that gaseous solvent is being pulled out…solvent tanks chilled below BP should only be burped once stabilized and fully liquid

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Evaporative cooling combined with the dry ice chilling of the condensing coil and tank will definitely prevent too much vapor from being dumped into atmosphere.

In fact, a dry ice reflux condenser just before the venturi vac would probably kick ass.

I get it, this is all theory for me. But I’m pretty sure this will work out great.

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