troutman
Seed Whore
No More Pentane and/or Hexane Explosions or Poisoning
I was doing some reviewing of my laboratory equipment and found a cool way for almost
99.99% of everyone, but the careless from blowing themselves up while distilling some
solvents like pentane and hexane. This will only work with solvents which have density
less than water and float on top of it.
I have carefully distilled n-hexane with an all glass laboratory still with ptfe joint sleeves
indoors with no problems. Because I did my research and proceeded with care knowing
the risks involved. Sadly a lot of people doing BHO of all things don't do any researching
and wonder why things go wrong when they do.
Anyways, I though that an essential oil/water separator like I have attached to the end
of a condenser in a distilling apparatus like in the pic below would 99.99% avoid any
solvent vapors from entering the atmosphere where most problems occur.
i.e Explosions or Poisoning
Any uncondensed pentane or hexane vapor that escapes the condenser that touches
the water in the water/oil separator will be instantly be converted to liquid and float on
top like in this image below where essential oils in yellow is located with water below it.
All a person as to do is carefully empty the liquid solvent from time to time in the
water/oil separator and add water to prime it and restart the distillation process.
BTW: Play safe and pay attention when using flammable solvents as anything can go wrong.
I was doing some reviewing of my laboratory equipment and found a cool way for almost
99.99% of everyone, but the careless from blowing themselves up while distilling some
solvents like pentane and hexane. This will only work with solvents which have density
less than water and float on top of it.
I have carefully distilled n-hexane with an all glass laboratory still with ptfe joint sleeves
indoors with no problems. Because I did my research and proceeded with care knowing
the risks involved. Sadly a lot of people doing BHO of all things don't do any researching
and wonder why things go wrong when they do.
Anyways, I though that an essential oil/water separator like I have attached to the end
of a condenser in a distilling apparatus like in the pic below would 99.99% avoid any
solvent vapors from entering the atmosphere where most problems occur.
i.e Explosions or Poisoning
Any uncondensed pentane or hexane vapor that escapes the condenser that touches
the water in the water/oil separator will be instantly be converted to liquid and float on
top like in this image below where essential oils in yellow is located with water below it.
All a person as to do is carefully empty the liquid solvent from time to time in the
water/oil separator and add water to prime it and restart the distillation process.
BTW: Play safe and pay attention when using flammable solvents as anything can go wrong.