Hi all. Im building out a new shop with some custom gear that I got from a friend, sorting through what is there is pretty daunting and I’m not in love with the pumps, which are Bhogart ZB04.
This a machine that he had custom built, and in a way it seems to lend itself to passive recovery, so I thought I’d ask for some input.
The collection pots are 28" tall and 36" wide, they are jacketed, and each one has 2 - 12" lids that each take a 6"x48" column (I have jacketed and none jacketed columns for it)
Each lid has 4- 3/4" ports and 2 sight glasses
So really each collection pot has 8- 3/4" ports
The solvent tanks have 3- 3/4" ports and are jacketed as well
I have the compressor and pumps, but am limited on power in my location, the chiller I have needs 81A and that’s just not doable here. So I’m trying to sell that one and get a smaller and colder one.
My questions:
How big of a chiller would I need to go passive on at least one of these units? I realize I might need to use both tanks of one extractor
Would passive be more energy efficient?
I can take more pictures and appreciate any advice, thanks. I’d really like not to have tons of noise if possible as well.
You could have a fabricator modify your solvent tank jacket to be an open sleeved style and use dry ice (I get that this will be heavy on consumables, but it will minimize your electrical use). Add 2x 3/4 recovery lines with condensing coils and sieves on each line. With this set up, heating your water for collection and sieve jackets would be the largest draw on power.
Love “Hillsy”. Im in the desert and have 2- 10Cuft Cascades and 4- 4cuft AI oven to run as well. I’d prefer to do a DI slurry on the coils and run a chiller on the tank, as DI is going to be hard to get in the quantity I would need every day
Got the tankless heater already. Really wondering about how big a chiller I would need. With the collection pots being so goddamn wide I think I can get a lot of vapor out of them quick
Are you needing that much collection volume? If you just inherited the equip and are running “normal volumes”, you could convert one of your collection tanks to a in-process recovery tank(not storage) for the extra condensing surface area.
You could use a small capacity chiller or a large capacity chiller the difference is how long it will take condense/recover.
Hm… That is a really interesting thing I hadn’t thought of at all.
As far as the chiller, I’d like to go as fast as I can, But let me wrap me head around that idea there.
Get the oil out SUCKS! Its the worst scrapping ever, up to the shoulder But my boy is really helping me get out of a jam and beggars can’t always be choosers
Ok, I haven’t run any machines in a couple at least 4 years, and with all the CRC tech and such, it seemed to me that I really need to get some big temp differentials going to meet the resistance I might hit.
Is that going to be a bad thing? I figured two 3/4 lines with 3/8 coil (or whatever the biggest I can get is) then into a tee on one 3/4 port. Am I somewhat close to how that would work?
But my boy is really helping me get out of a jam and beggars can’t always be choosers
