Pink Distillate Quick Fix?

[GroovyOctopusLabs]

Citric Acid Degumming Tek

Workers use citric acid to “degum” distillate or crude resin intended for making distillate. There are several ways to employ it, and all require a bit of water to disassociate the acid… i.e. make it acidic by letting it ionize into H+ (actually H3O+ “hydronium” cations in water) and negatively charged citric (citrate) conjugate base anions. Before you begin working with any acid or base, you should measure the starting pH of your hydrated (water-containing) resin solution. To do this, use Hydr…

Degumming (Citric Acid + Enzymatic), Winterization, Saline Scrub Critique

Hi All, I have recently had extra time (a very rare occurrence), and it dawned upon me that I’d like to insert the entire playbook of remediation for my EtOH-extracted distillate. The process is as follows: Cold EtOH extraction (generally between -40 and -20C), cold bag-filtration 10um->5um->0.5um, solvent recovery, decarb, terpene strip, distillation. My intention is to take that first pass distillate and do the following: Water Degum - Add 10% neutral RO water (not brine) to 1st Pass Dis…