Wow dude! Bitching rig!
hell yea, im fuckin over the moon about them, i just put up a link im my previous post
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That there is called the beast, cats outa the bag
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Who makes that unit? Looks like you upgraded a bit from the pic to that video. Sounds like a dirt bike in the lab lol.
thats the vacuum coming down to depth, it stops once it arrives at desired depth
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a guy makes them out in colorado, HeartMagic is the name i believe, ill have to double check on that
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So this is also decarbs your biomass right? You can go right into the C02 extractor right?
we do cold ethanol extraction so we just dry the material an then go straight into the extractor bags
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Right on!
Once steamed, is it mostly decarbed though? How long is it staying at 76C?
If you wanted straight THC-a could you go lower temps, or if you wanted distillate bound crude you could crank it for the last fraction ?
Im on the hunt for hemp terps
How much you need?
Pulling some Fresh cut steam stilled Beach Wedding now !
If anyone needs some , holler.
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How gummy is your crude? When I’ve done cold ethanol extraction after steam distillation I’ve always had super gummy crude. I should note though that my drying methods could be described as “impatient.”
id say from my experience witch is limited, it looks the same as if we didn’t steam it first, we didn’t always have the stil but once we got it we implemented that into our process to maximize the profit potential of the starting material steam it, extract it, then distill it, we’re industrial scale so every penny counts
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seems like a lot of people are fine with just wasting the terps and going straight to distillate…
I was wondering how many people have tried doing a simple steam distillation on crude extract after it’s been rotovaped of ethanol, is it just a terrible idea? Are the terps already gone at that point? I once knew a guy who just added a gallon of water into the crude after evaporating, and then distilled all of that water off, and he did in fact manage to collect some terpenes after he separated them in a sep funnel from the hydrosol. Was he just totally messing up his crude though? Does that hydrolyze it or anything? Would zeolite help in any way? I don’t care about terpene yields at all because it’s just a side product, our main product is CBD distillate, would doing it that way affect CBD yield negatively?
If no one can answer any of these questions, I’m just gonna try it and see what happens. Just wonder if it’s a waste of time or not.
anything that boils at a lower temp than ethanol is gone, gone, gone
you steam distill the biomass, then you dry it to a crisp and extract.
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Would this approach allow you to capture sesquiterpenes with higher boiling points, such as bisabolol and valencene? My best guess is probably not, but I will quickly admit that this is only a semi-educated guess.
Valencene is barely actually in cannabis but bisabolol is one of the more abundant terpenes in steam terps. Between alpha bisabolol, alpha bisabolene, and beta bisabolene those will commonly account for about 10% of a cannabinoid-free steam distilled terp sample.
Hydrocarbon > steam is better
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