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How to use rotovap distillation to better cbd extracts?
In order to produce highest-qulity cbd oil, researchers are looking to more traditional methods of hemp extraction and isolation, in fact, there’re several options to improve plant oil manufacturing techniques.
Rotary evaporation
is mainly used as an economical solvent removing / ethanol recovering equipment during hemp oil distillation process. At here let’s learn together, how to use rotovap distillation
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Four main ways to make your rotovap disitllation process faster:
– Increasing the evaporation flask size.
– Increasing the evaporation flask rotating speed.
– Increasing the rotary evaporator’s bath temperature.
– Increasing the vacuum level.
1.Increasing the evaporation flask size.
Same as we know, the rotary evaporation
flask should never be more than half full, both to prevent spillage and allow enough liquid surface area for efficient evaporation. So when we choose rotary evaporator capacity, this point must be considered.For laboratory research, choose a small rotary evaporator is more economical and practical. But I also want to say, if you want to creat a more efficient rotovap
process, bigger is generally better. As bigger flask have bigger surface, which will make more of the flask be contact with water / oil bath, makes your sample more uniform heating and faster.In brief, larger flask will make the surface area of the sample exposed to air inside the falsk, finally makes the evaporation process more efficient.
Rotary evaporator
is very easily scalable,0.5L ~100L wide capacity range, flexible design makes rotovapor
very adaptable when processing cbd oil. Hotsale 100L rotary evaporator in hemp oil industry. -
2.Increasing the evaporation flask rotating speed.
Increasing the flask rotating speed can improve the heat transfer to the flask and solvent, and increase the surface area of the liquid inside the flask, so as to improve the evaporation rate.
Most customers always think the faster of rotating speed is better, but pls pay attention to the turbulence of liquid, too faster speed not only can actually lower the efficient of evaporation,but also will cause premature wear on your rotary evaporator
.The distillation flask is recommend to rotate from 150-200rpm (will be different for different capacity rotary evaporators
, and different sample), which will increases the solution surface area and enhances the solvent evaporation rate. -
3.Increasing the rotary evaporator’s bath temperature.
CBD extracts itself require lower water bath temperature to minimize thermal decomposition, so it’s important not to increase the rotary evaporator
, bath temperature too higher & fast.And the evaporation temperature is also depending on the chiller you’re using, if you set too high temp. will increase your evaporation rate to a point that the chiller can’t keep up.
So we could heating the rotary evaporator
bath slowly, 30-40℃ is recommend, the condenser temperature which controlled by a low temperature circulating bath chiller, could set to -10℃ to 0℃. -
4.Increasing the vacuum level.
Using vacuum pump could reduced the pressure in the rotary evaporator, lower the boiling point of the solvent / ethanol, you could finish solvent removing / ethanol recovering process at a lower temperature, protect the cbd oil material, and could fast your evaporation rate.
