right, but the trichomes don’t need much to open them, and opening all the other containers that don’t contain the goodies, and dumping it all in one bucket doesn’t strike me as the right approach.
perform this trick after gathering trichomes, then show me that data…
Freeze dried trim → mechanical sift → ultrasonic extraction in ethanol ? I like it, but if you’re already down to the point of a sifted product I’m not sure that you’d get a lot of value out of it.
Personally, I’m a fan of using dual plate and frame heat exchangers. Run a chiller through one heat exchanger, pass your extract through it, the waxes plate out in the heat exchanger. Monitor your effluent for quality, and your differential pressure for plugging. Once you’ve fouled the first heat exchanger, switch over to the other and steam clean the first. It’s used in the processing of lactane.
When I left the polymer field to the cannabis field, I spoke with our lead chemical engineer in the R&D department on means of winterization and that’s what he suggested.
I had a buddy who would fill FoodSaver bags with MCT oil and cannabis and then leave the bags in a heated ultrasonic bath (jewelry bath) and use the solution for edibles . He swore by it but we never ran analytics so that’s anecdotal at best, we tried the same method with etoh and pulled all sorts of u desirables, probably due to temp more than anything.
the biggest issue with ultrasonic extraction is that no traditional hemp or cannabis labs have been able to accurately test it. Anyone else run into this issue? Have a solution?
I believe the issue is nanoemulsion at some scale. Water solubility was one of the potential perks that lead me into researching ultrasonic extraction.
I ran ultrasonic extraction and it works fine if you prepare the material and environment correctly. It does risk releasing additional cellular material but it can also rapidly extract.
Forgive the use of paint, but here’s my current R&D project. If anyone has the knowledge base to calculate wave propagation through fluid and solid mediums, you could save me a lot trial and error heh.
Edit: Ethanol and Biomass chilled to -80, oil heater maintaining temperature around the probe above the minimum to prevent brittle fracture.