GW can you please go into more detail about Eden's product and how it is being used?
GW,
is that glassware rated for high vacuum? It is a very large glass vessel to be puling that hard. hoping you checked before recommending it...
I bet we are going to start seeing a bunch of implosions/explosions with all these amateur non-chemists playing with cheap glassware at high vacuum.
lets be safe about this
GW,
is that glassware rated for high vacuum? It is a very large glass vessel to be puling that hard. hoping you checked before recommending it...
I bet we are going to start seeing a bunch of implosions/explosions with all these amateur non-chemists playing with cheap glassware at high vacuum.
lets be safe about this
Eden Labs system isn't remotely close to cheap at $6500
I infer you are referring to their short path still.
It is essentially a large boiling flask sitting in a heating mantle and utilizing a magnetic stir bar inside the flask, to provide the thin film and reduce bumping.
It is under vacuum and discharges to a chilled collection flask also under vacuum.
They originally built if for alcohol recovery and then discovered that under lower vacuum levels, they could also fractionally distill the terpenes.
Here is a picture of one on display, without a chilled bath.
GW Thank you for your prompt reply, I'd assume to achieve separating the terpenes you need a vacuum controller in addition to the materials there kit provides?
As this was originally designed as an alcohol recovery still and in my basic understanding refining to an absolute would in turn destroy the terpenes? would one first add freshly extracted oil to recover the terpenes with the collection flask in an ice bath? From there one would add a co-solvet (i.e. ethanol) winterize and filter and add it back to the eden still to further refine to an absolute thus removing and remaining lipids, fats, waxes, and chlorophyl (i.e. Clear?).
Thanks Again!
Doesn't it feel like your mission in life to start a benchtop molecular distillation business, that everything up to now has been preparation for this?
The path is still too long and not shaped right. You will get distillate coating that curved neck and will have to heat and insulate the condenser.