Dewaxing?

personal lux · Mar 14, 2016

Curious about methods of dewaxing, I have a half pound pressurized collumn, with a collumn around it I fill wit dry ice and alc., is this sufficient enough for dewaxing? I have a collumn that is about 1/4 of the size I can attach that I thought about putting the steel barring into aswell. Would this help a lot or no? Curious on input.

Fadedawg · Mar 15, 2016

If you extract with a propane/butane mix, at -30/40C, you will extract less of the ~C-30 longer chain molecules, so may not need to dewax.

If you are planning inline dewaxing, you need a chamber where the LPG/BHO mixture has enough residence time at low temperature, for more of the longer chain molecules to precipitate out of solution, so they can be filtered.

Try a 1 micron sock filter from Duda Diesel, and adding marbles or ball bearings, glass beads, etc, will add to the surface area that the waxes can adhere to.

personal lux · Mar 15, 2016

Fadedawg said:
If you extract with a propane/butane mix, at -30/40C, you will extract less of the ~C-30 longer chain molecules, so may not need to dewax.

If you are planning inline dewaxing, you need a chamber where the LPG/BHO mixture has enough residence time at low temperature, for more of the longer chain molecules to precipitate out of solution, so they can be filtered.

Try a 1 micron sock filter from Duda Diesel, and adding marbles or ball bearings, glass beads, etc, will add to the surface area that the waxes can adhere to.

Thanks for the input man, so a 1 micron screen between the barrings and the pressurized collumn, so when I release the collumn it will slowly go through and over the barrings causing the waxes to solidify and stick?

Fadedawg · Mar 16, 2016

personal lux said:
Thanks for the input man, so a 1 micron screen between the barrings and the pressurized collumn, so when I release the collumn it will slowly go through and over the barrings causing the waxes to solidify and stick?

I would put the bearings in the sock filter, and pull it through using the vacuum from the recovery pump.

The bearings simply provide surface area for the waxes to stick to, to save plugging the filter as fast.

personal lux · Mar 16, 2016

Fadedawg said:
I would put the bearings in the sock filter, and pull it through using the vacuum from the recovery pump.

The bearings simply provide surface area for the waxes to stick to, to save plugging the filter as fast.

I've been trying to slowly scale my way up learning to processes myself as I go here in MI since it's still a bit scary. I want to upgrade to a full systems with pumps but am not sure how it all works with the recovery pumps and such. Any suggestions on a nice upgrade from what I'm using now
Closed loop etc? Under 5k?

Fadedawg · Mar 17, 2016

personal lux said:
I've been trying to slowly scale my way up learning to processes myself as I go here in MI since it's still a bit scary. I want to upgrade to a full systems with pumps but am not sure how it all works with the recovery pumps and such. Any suggestions on a nice upgrade from what I'm using now
Closed loop etc? Under 5k?

For under $5K, I would suggest a Mk III Terpenator. https://skunkpharmresearch.com/mk-iii-terpenator/

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