FROM PLANT MATERIAL TO END PRODUCTS: PROCESSES AND EQUIPMENT FOR MAKING EXTRACTS, DISTILLATE, & ISOLATE One of the biggest challenges facing growers, processors, and new businesses is learning and acquiring the equipment and skills needed to take plant material...
HVE THIN FILM DISTILLATION SYSTEM Many processors look for affordable solutions to common processing tasks. Distillation is no exception. Distillation systems also need to be reliable and able to withstand the high-throughput demands of many operations. The...
WATER HASH 101: Plus 6 methods for DIY Water Hash Water hash magnified. Photo: Marcus Bubbleman Water Hash 101 Water hash is a favorite method of making concentrates employed all over the world. Its name comes from the water process used to collect glands from the...
Hydrocarbon Extraction; A Complete Guide. Hydrocarbon; First: Some Definitions: Before we can begin our discussion, we need to clear up two commonly misunderstood words – “Organic” (when referring to an organic compound) and “Volatility” (when referring to chemistry)....
Zackary Brown October 21, 2019 COLOR REMEDIATION – HEY FOLKS! HOPE YOU’RE ALL HAVING A GREAT DAY! So today I wanted to release my special technique for color remediation of just about every single unwanted compound from your extracts. This works with Butane,...
Solvent recovery is a vast bottleneck currently plaguing extractors everywhere, and we’ve found a way to fix it! Traditional methods include rotary or falling film evaporators; This system is similar but achieves higher throughput then conventional technologies...
QUICK WASH ETHANOL (QWET) EXTRACTION QWET cannabis oil extraction involves freezing cannabis and ethanol before combining them to “wash” and harvest the cannabinoids and terpenes from the cannabis plant to craft a concentrate containing the maximum amount of...
This brief overview will focus on “aspects” of cannabis emulsions via ultrasonication so that others may start or find useful such information. Initially, response surface methodology (RSM) was performed to optimize the formulation variables of...
As you consider the rapidly growing extraction market, your initial decisions will impact your entire cultivation and extraction workflow. Illustration: Marina Vorontsova Only 10 percent of the cannabis produced in the future will be sold as raw product in the form of...
As the cannabis industry has mushroomed over the past few years, the share of the market attributed to cannabis extracts has burgeoned even faster. So far, two types of cannabis extracts, butane extracts and supercritical CO2 extracts, have accounted for the...