I thought it was anthocyanins (red/purple), but could be carotenoids(orange-red), or even both.
My next SPD run (tomorrow) will be with MagSil PR in the boiling flask and I’ll post my results. I’ll be following @garhundel’s suggested measurement.
My crude usually ends up being red and occluded from T41 room temp wet mixing (EtOH) then filter through medium speed papers before the short path, so if it clears up on distill and no red at all I’ll be super delighted. I just hope that the particles don’t get carried through the condensor to the receiving flask like I had happen with a SPD run that had T41 in boiling flask. Anyone tried using Distillation packing in their head piece for rejecting solids/powders in the head? https://ledab.ca/pro-pak-distillation-packing-1oz/
Im sure raschig rings will work just fine. ive used them in alcohol distillation. For powder rejection the head key from summit works great. the powders usually hit the first couple of protrusions and fall back down. Ive seen them used that way many times.
I can’t get aluminum oxide anywhere near me and had an unexpected free afternoon so I made some aluminum hydroxide. I don’t have a forge so I can’t make it into oxide.
It was a fun little project. Maybe I’ll make some rubies with it. Or just make a furnace.
Hey that’s very kind of you, @Demontrich. I only really need enough to make a few cakes for now. Then if it works I can just order a big sack for future use.
@Roguelab, yep. I’m aware that it’s a sandblasting material, and am pretty familiar with all the supply stores in my area. I thought it was strange too.
possible to run chilled winterized solution via ethanol pump through our filtration skid with cartridge filters starting at 100 micron stepping down to 1 micron? what micron will the vast majority of these fats be caught in?
new to using silica can you walk me through how to make silica slurry? and what kinda filter should be used? next question is during the adsorbent scrubbing the 5% total material of cbleach added to the boiling material 5% of alcohol /oil mix or 5% of starting oil? and is this run through the same type of silica slurry filler?
How critical is the amount of silica used in the filter bed for both winterizing and the pre-first pass absorbent scrub? I am interested in learning how much silica should be used per unit of product to be filtered.
Would you be aware of literature that explains the mechanism of how silica is performing the filtration?
Silica I would not recomend for winterization
For any filteraid or powder get s you clean from fats
As for color silica works with the right solvent
But again so do bentonites and other natural clays
Main isseu I have with silica the damn dust passes treu more often than expected so care must be taken