If you are in the CBD oil business, you may be considering the purchase of solvent extraction equipment. Before you make this type of investment, you should learn more about these systems. Below is more information.
Solvent-based extraction equipment is popular in the cannabis and hemp industries. Solvents are useful for extracting oils and compounds from cannabis for several reasons:
- Easy to scale, so they are ideal for startups with smaller budgets but big plans.
- Efficient at making current popular end products
- Safe as long as you are following local, state and federal laws
As a highly popular solvent, ethanol extraction is known to be one of the best and safest ways to extract cannabinoids from cannabis and hemp. It’s also known to be highly scalable for most extraction businesses. So, it’s ideal for growing companies and startups.
A great thing about ethanol extraction is it only needs a C1D2 operating area, so building your extraction lab is quite easy. Ethanol can be recovered easily and reused for several extraction cycles to make the process highly cost-effective and to boost your ROI.
The largest benefit of using ethanol for extraction is that it’s versatile in what it can make, so it’s highly adaptable to the constantly changing demands of our marketplace. It’s excellent for extracting many types of cannabis and hemp products. And if it’s handled properly, it doesn’t leave any solvent behind in the final product. That is why it is thought to be a clean solvent.
Ethanol can make many varieties of cannabinoid derivatives, so it’s a good solution for small-scale processors and also for big labs that want to produce CBD and THC in large quantities.
Ethanol extraction can be done under room temperature, but it is usually done most efficiently by chilling the alcohol being used to -40C in your inline chiller.
To lower the ethanol’s temperature for cold ethanol extraction, you need to use an industrial inline chiller which will quickly chill the ethanol solution. When the solution is cooled down to the temperature you want, then it can be added to the extraction system, along with high-quality hemp biomass or cannabis.
The next part of the process is extraction, where the biomass is put in chilled ethanol solvent to get the cannabinoid compounds.
Solvent extraction equipment is the answer if you want to develop a quality hemp or cannabis business!