Extraction

You have a really nice setup. I'm looking forward to seeing what you make of it.

lusidghost said:

They are for running water though the jacket to warm up the column and force the butane out.

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it It required and is the water continuously running through jacket

Rcar2 said:

Morning guys - please have a look at the pics and let me know your opinion on if I can get this thing to run properly.

The only vacuum pump I have is pictured. If I will need another one please advise. Also, will I need a refrigerate scale for my butane.

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Without an intimate inspection, I proffer the following:

You need a vacuum pump to evacuate the system before introducing LPG.

A Terpenator uses a refrigerant recovery pump to reclaim the LPG and a Lil Terp uses dry ice and heat for that purpose.

As I don't see a bottom injection port or a return line, it looks like it is set up as a top flood and passive recovery system.

The connections on the lower pot are for hot water heat for recovery. You would have your recovery tank sitting in a dry ice slurry.

I read the open jacketed tank as an inline dewax, so you would evacuate the system, fill the open jacket with dry ice slurry and flood the column from the top, letting it drain into the dewax tank, where it would sit long enough to drop the LPG temperature.

The lower collection tank valve is opened to allow the LPG to drain into it, and then the lower tank is heated with hot water, while the recovery tank is chilled in a dry ice recovery.

Rcar2 said:

it It required and is the water continuously running through jacket

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Hot water is circulated in the lower tank jacket for recovery purposes. Unless you are running a recovery pump, there is no need to heat during flooding.

The Terpenators chilled the LPG before injection, to avoid picking up the plant waxes in the first place, instead of winterizing them out post extraction.

Thank you so much -

is propane just as efficient as butane?

thank you

This is why I just do ice water extraction, this thing looks complex af lol good luck to you though my guy!

Cmon man that’s no help - haha

Thanks for checking it out. I am goin to post more pics of what I think needs to happen here for approval or redirect by the pros in here -

I’m just a guy who’s kid dropped this thing off at my house and asked me if I could figure out how it works - now mind youI had never heard of a closed loop extractor before 2 weeks ago when he showed up with this thing

I’m sure I’ll get it to run with the help of you guys

Thank you and

Happy Sunday

meangreengrowinmachine said:

This is why I just do ice water extraction, this thing looks complex af lol good luck to you though my guy!

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Much less possible to blow something up with that method.

I am going to post this as best as possible

Step 1 - set up system and tighten all pressure seals - vacuum the system to make sure all seals seated and no leaks? Doe I use the valve closest to pressure gauge?

Or does it matter?

Step2 turn off vacuum and close the valves to make sure pressure holds then release pressure and fill colum with solvent and catch into tank shown

Definitely take it outside if you are running gas. I open blast through a closed loop rig, so I forget why there are so many vacuum ports. I don't recognize the port with the button looking thing. I also don't think you need two ball valves at the bottom of the column.

Thanks man -

is the the correct concept? Fill the sides of first catch with dry ice - let solvent flow through column/product into first reservoir (dry ice surrounding) then after a period of cooling there open both valves so product flows and collects in bottom reservoir? Should I warm bottom resivour?
Thanks

Rcar2 said:

Thanks man -

is the the correct concept? Fill the sides of first catch with dry ice - let solvent flow through column/product into first reservoir (dry ice surrounding) then after a period of cooling there open both valves so product flows and collects in bottom reservoir? Should I warm bottom resivour?
Thanks

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One valve should work. Maybe one goes between the material column and the terp column? I'm not sure why there are two.

The gas follows the cold, so you want the collection column as cold as possible before the run. People often sit them in a bucket with ice / dry ice. Once you've collected the goop, then you run warm water through the jacket to warm up the column and force the butane back out.

I just put this muffin into the oven yesterday.

I bet that thing is heavy af.

Do you know what size your oven is, cubic feet wise? Mine is 1.9cu ft, which is fairly big, but could barely handle a 1/2lb column's worth. I recently downgraded to a 2oz column to make it easier on myself.

This one in particular Some videos here should help you understand how it works. I was trying to find a used tabletop version not too long ago.
With how expensive those are i cant imagine what that thing cost

Rcar2 said:

Or does it matter?

Step2 turn off vacuum and close the valves to make sure pressure holds then release pressure and fill colum with solvent and catch into tank shown

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If its anything like the pump i use for airconditioning, the valves should be shut before turning off the pump.
It prevents the oil in the pump from being drawn back into the system.

lusidghost said:

I bet that thing is heavy af.

Do you know what size your oven is, cubic feet wise? Mine is 1.9cu ft, which is fairly big, but could barely handle a 1/2lb column's worth. I recently downgraded to a 2oz column to make it easier on myself.

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I do not - it is heavy as fuck tho

I’ll see if I can look it up

lusidghost said:

I just put this muffin into the oven yesterday.

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I gotta get there