I haven’t seen much discussion regarding different distillation head designs, packings, stage-type distillation, and the like.
From my time as a student, I remember the infinitesimal detail required to appropriately design an industrial-scale distillation column that was both effective and efficient. With cannabis it’s hard, because you’re dealing with a very complex mixture with many, MANY constituents.
My question is: what kind of distillation heads do you use, why do you use them and how can we begin to quantitatively determine the properties of cannabinoids mixtures in the context of the math that models distillation?
Short path in general
First pass without pakking
Second pass with packing
Some times 30 cm vigreax with glass indents
Some times hempel. Colom with rashig rings or copper scrubies
May I ask you what particular application case do you have for the columns?
I searched vigreaux but it is not so popular around here.
Do you have much loss in such a setup?
I am prob the only person here with true knowledge on this subject and I can tell you it’s because nobody else cares enough to do the r and d and find out these answers. People who sell counterfeit glass of mine don’t even know how it works.
A really good example is *** from ****** ************* in Vegas two+ years ago trying to pass off a counterfeit and horribly compiled ripp off short path Himself, and his team had no idea the geometric and design failures they were attempting to promote while making absurd claims. Plot twist - they ripped off the gen 1 patent almost verbatim but didn’t know there’s a third or fourth gen we make now bc the first gen patent was a failure in how it damaged molecules on Thier way out and while being recycled. Meaning the design was not to be used as first rendition. In fact that one design at the time was responsible for converting d9 to d10 in one pass just based on geometry and function issues. I was originally forced to pull and alter the device to not have issues with government organizations when the heat was on from taking legal market product into a illegal market while doing a conversion thereupon.
There’s a reason why oems take the time to create products and revise them for customers. There’s a reason why these companies don’t even try to understand what they are ripping off. They are morons.
No but there is a patent Wich clearly shows it and if you can dissemble it you’ll figure it out. Why should I go online and just give the tech away, even if it was abandoned and modified to a better generation.
Really happy i got to meet him this week and he really explained the purification of d10 and d8 to a layman…
wish i got to actually spend more time with him because he was able to draw me out diagrams and explain it pretty easy for someone with no chemistry background.
I should have my flashlight on tues and will begin playing with his pigment tracker to confirm my finding that hydrocarbon extracts without pigment suck and chlorophyll is needed. just a theory but now i have some toys to test it!
to bring everything in full circle… id be on the look out for @AlexSiegel stainless short paths which i have no part in… but appreciate what hes doing…
sweeet @Killa12345 cant wait for some findings! @AlexSiegel how much is the pigment tracker? You know id like one of ur spd’s too but im sure i cant afford one!
The columns are only used to see how much one can fraction of one from the other at the time the r and d was on cbn out of thc rich distillate and vice versa
Packed heads is to see if something that other wise has the same bp can be caught off before landing in the flask
Only pakking that made a difrance is molsieves 8 A Wich is a nightmare to find
Instant D8 is actually also possible with
Sulfonated ceramic beads but the tields fail
General consensus