This tech (bids) would be awesome to implement but with current pricing of all fancy raisins it could be projected as the “overkill price” to implement on the big scale …
For the people on this forum who was laze or busy to do the R&D on this - simple SOP for color removal ,thc CBD separation and surly for encourage to start the new topic in here.
Mix your crude or distillate with heptane 1:1 ( for crude soline wash is needed)
Get 3A zeolite (in jar for the simplicity) and wash it with fresh heptane ( drain solvent out)
Combine your mixture and zeolite (fill till zeolite fully suspended)
Wait few hours .
Filter ( coffee filter is fine for this step)
Liquid portion will go back for the re run (if CBD/thc separation is desired)
Zeolite in you filtration funnel now loaded with the goodies.
Prepare second filtration funnel for color CRC STYLE 1”-3” of b80 will work, put loaded zeolite on top
Run fresh Heptane ( acid spiked if not decarb crude was used) to wash zeolite. Collected heptane would be almost white and it will wash out only 50%-60% of all available goodies but zeolite will hold up the thc molecules a little better so with this method it is easy to bring down % of thc in oil drastically
My personal record from almost 8% down to 1.2%
Don’t forget zeolite still loaded with cannabinoids needs to be washed with different solvent (toluene)
Is the second solvent of choice to remove cannabinoids but not the garbage.
This SOP was for the 1st grade students … lol
For the pros:
3A is 0.3 nm al the bulky molecules can’t feet
Zeolite exist in the form of powder (column loading)
Zeolite based ion exchange resin will give have a force to hold molecules (thc/CBD separation)
Pre-wetting resin with the right (top secret ) solution will activate protonation of nitrogen in functional groups allowing the adsorption of acid ( everybody remembering the hint about controlled decarboxilatio
of THCA to thc and living cbda in acidic form)
So if someone will start the new topic on zeolite and polymer resins I’ll will tell what would happen if someone stupid/curious will use zeolite/resins in packable distillation head.
Happy Hollidays !!!