how much hemp would it take to make 1 liter of THC Distillate? I heard it takes 22 pounds of trimming ( depending on THC levels- I used 6-8% ) to make a liter of THC distillate
Search expected yields in the search bar. This has been answered a million times
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Almost 1,000,001. Lol
Hope business is good for you buddy!
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@MichIntegrated: You’ve got my phone number. It again sounds like you should use it.
Unless you’re aiming at delta 8 you’re not getting THC distillate out of hemp without chromatography.
Using the search term “mass balance” might also get you pointed in the right direction.
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Mass balance. Cannabinoids in = cannabinoids out.
Assuming you can separate ThC from cbd (non-trivial) then you can only get as much thc out as you put in.
1kg of compliant hemp at 0.3% THC had how many grams of THC? (3!!)
You want a kg of 90% thc.
== how many grams? 1000x0.9
So at 3grams thc per Kg of biomass, how many kg of hemp?
900/3 = 300kg!!!
And that’s at 100% extraction efficiency.
What if you got the more standard 75%
300kg / 0.75 == 400kg.
BUT it’s just not happening…
You’ve essentially asked “how many kg of apples to make a liter of orange juice”…
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This might be a dumb question, but what happens to the THC that’s removed from CBD distillate through chromatography? Is it just thrown out, or is it reused in other products? Would it be possible to use the removed THC from THC-free CBD distillate, similar to how caffeine powder can be made from de-caffeinated coffee beans?
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There is generally a fair amount of CBD in there…at least in the industrial waste that I’ve huffed in the past 
1:1 makes decent pain meds…
How much CBD you loose to the “thc” fraction depends on what you’re using for chromatography resin.
I’m not one to suggest throwing shit out, but extracting 10% thc rather than 0.3% thc then performing chromatography is a whole fuck ton easier/faster/more economical…
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That is by no means a dumb question. I think the answer depends on how much a person cares about being legal. I was told at a facility that happened to be owned by an attorney who I think knew and followed the law closely, the delta 9 becomes legal to possess when diluted to a certain concentration in hexane I think it was they were using. At the other extreme, It has been suggested on here that said thc likely ends up in black market vapes, possibly including the ones that were killing people.
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do a lot of people use Chromatography for Processing?
No. Big pharma also avoids it whenever possible. It solves the problem, but takes a LOT of solvent.
Membrane based solvent recovery changes the equation slightly, but again, it’s generally only used when your don’t have another way to solve your separation.
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Big pharma does avoid it, but there are companies that operate gigantic chromatography columns that run non-stop. The solvent recycling aspect is just fine tuned to whatever the process is that’s running though.
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Yeah, go big, or go home…
If it’s the only tool that will get the job done, then you embrace that and do it well. It’s not difficult, just expensive.
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