How to filter canned butane?

[itsblown]

So with the talk of "mystery oil" comming in caned butane what are some possible ways to filter canned butane other than a closed loop recovery system. Does anyone know of any methods to filter the gas before its ran all over our plant material? Trying to help out myself and those with lower tech make a healthier product.

 

[Green Dot Labs]

i would say filter through your lungs to prevent it going into the atmosphere. That or quit open blasting all together

 

[SkyHighLer]

Unless something really nasty is found in the 'mystery oil' I probably won't filter it out. It can probably be filtered out by packing your extraction tube with fine activated carbon (charcoal,) and shooting into a Mason jar, where the actual extraction can be done using a soak technique like this, https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=5871751&postcount=3

 

[itsblown]

Unless something really nasty is found in the 'mystery oil' I probably won't filter it out. It can probably be filtered out by packing your extraction tube with fine activated carbon (charcoal,) and shooting into a Mason jar, where the actual extraction can be done using a soak technique like this, https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=5871751&postcount=3

What does the activated carbon do? and couldnt that technique be implemented into a vertical column extraction aswell?

 

[SkyHighLer]

What does the activated carbon do? and couldnt that technique be implemented into a vertical column extraction aswell?

"Filters with activated carbon are usually used in compressed air and gas purification to remove oil vapors, odors, and other hydrocarbons from the air."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon#Gas_purification

http://www.amazon.com/Activated-Cha...52637&sr=8-2&keywords=fine+activated+charcoal

Maybe you could put your nuggs at the bottom of an extra long tube and pack activated carbon on top, you'd need a low micron filter to catch any charcoal dust.

 

[JColtrane]

All this Mystery Oil shit makes me laugh ... and I can't believe how many people are falling for this shit! Skunkpharm preformed the experiment with almost no results ... and let just say lubricant is left in the can, it's % is so small and the chance of it being there once it travels all the way through your material (remember the is a filter on itself) is almost impossible. But what clears all this up is WINTERIZING YO OIL ... but if you need to use activated charcoal gotta filter that down to around 2 microns ... go from there

 

[mda232]

Not sure where you're getting your misinformation from, but per Jump it is NOT soluable in Ethanol (no winterization) and GW is still waiting on the results of what the aromatics they found are (possibly Benzene, though not likely).. unless you have newer info than me in which case I apologize.

 

[Gray Wolf]

Besides fractional distillation under vacuum, we are going to experiment with Bentonite filters. More after we see some results.

 

[montroller]

With all this new info I think the community could really benefit from a cheap cold trap design and tutorial.

 

[itsblown]

Besides fractional distillation under vacuum, we are going to experiment with Bentonite filters. More after we see some results.

Ive taken a few gen chem courses in college and have done fractional distillation but how would it be done with a gass? or is the vaccume used to keep the butane a liquid? let us know how the bentonite filters work out

With all this new info I think the community could really benefit from a cheap cold trap design and tutorial.

please explain more? how would one go about making a cold trap design and what is it?

 

[Hashmasta-Kut]

graywolf posted a design on the mystery oil thread, go check it out.

 

[Gray Wolf]

Ive taken a few gen chem courses in college and have done fractional distillation but how would it be done with a gass? or is the vaccume used to keep the butane a liquid? let us know how the bentonite filters work out



please explain more? how would one go about making a cold trap design and what is it?

All of the hydrocarbons are in liquid form, and you vaccum off the butane as a vapor.

While boiling under vacuum, the temperature of the pool plunges to subzero temperatores, so constututes heavier and with a higher boiling point than butane, are not volatized.

If I haven't already, I'll post my latest design when I get home, which is a cold trap with a filter section and copper wool in the pot to react with any remaining sulfur compounds, and we will experiment with bentonite, zeolite, or diatomacious earth in the filter section.