Where exactly on the tube is it clogging and at what point in the run? Pressure and temps? There are a few reasons you could have concentrate precipitating out of solution but if you feel it's directly related to depressurization it's because your r…
@SEANP said:
Does anybody have experience or know if there is any significant difference in end product quality and extraction run time between eden labs and apeks CO2 extraction systems?
I've ran both quite a bit. There's not a big diff …
Dry ice indicates that you are venting too fast, the puddle of liquid co2 in the bottom of sep1 turns to dry ice because of the rapid depressurization. I never remove the bottom of my fx2 separator.
I strongly recommend calling your local fire dept, they are there to help people with this kind of stuff. Most depts use the International Fire Code. I was recently at a moonshine(legal) distillery and it certainly wasn't c1d1.
@jonaaronbray I agree it's not very efficient. It's certainly not needed though, I've done it on my FX2 with water/glycol. I was replying to your statement that they wouldn't fair well.
@ThomasWR Supercritical water isn't steam. Water isn't called the universal solvent because it has the ability to universally dissolve, it's because water dissolves more chemicals than any other liquid.
Interesting about the palm oil. Only applic…
I would make giant batches of homogenized oil and use third party testing. It's what I intend to do in OR to not get bankrupted by their insane testing regulations.