Eco Extraction using water as solvent provides best method to extract oil from plants using cavitation |
Eco Extraction using Hydrodynamic Cavitation and Water The challenges with legacy extraction technologies results in long processing times, poor quality product (like ethanol extraction), operator error, and large operating expenses.The result of our efforts have focussed on push-button controlled aqueous extraction. Using the SDR (Spinning Disc Reactor) shortens reaction time to just under a second using mechanically rotating discs. What is unique about this process is that you can perform multiple functions with the same technology including extraction, filtration, separation, and flow all using spinning water. Good for botanical processing, producing silver nanoparticles, and more.Email: Cavitation Processing of Botanicals
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Aqueous Turbine Extraction Technology Infinity is taking extraction to a new level of processing technology for extraction.Using rotating elements in series allows the processor to do in-line continuous feed extraction, and optional separation, wax removal, distillation, and isolate.Push-button operation allows inexperienced operators to run this system.Mounted in standard shipping containers, this plug-and-play system is ready to operate on delivery. Power with 3-phase 480V service.Since water is the solvent in a closed-loop process, the need for any permitting is reduced or eliminated.The only consumables are water and power. Power can be sourced from renewables, such as solar or microturbines to take advantage of Federal tax credits.This is the only eco-friendly extraction process that is good for your workers, good for the consumers, and good for the environment. It’s also good for profit.Using a eco-extraction process is not only good for the environment, but great for the consumer. A higher buy price will give you better profit margin on processing.Consumables (such as slippage, which is a huge cost for ethanol processors) are eliminated, which can virtually pay for a SDR system over time.Energy sourced from microturbines or renewables, such as solar, make available substantial tax credits for your primary consumable, power. This makes your operation more competitive, compared to other processors.
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Silver Nanoparticle Production 14 USD per gram from botanical sources Spinning Disc Reactor for Nanoparticle Production to make $24 million per yearSpinning Disc Reactors, or SDRs, are a very new type of processing unit that has had new applications discovered every year.A big field of interest as of lately has been process intensification which is a design approach that focuses on smaller, cleaner, safer, and more energy efficient processes. One design that has received considerable attention as of late has been the spinning disc reactor (SDR). Its basic design includes one or more liquid streams being flowed onto a quickly rotating disc.The centrifugal acceleration from the rotation creates a very thin liquid film which significantly heightens the mass transfer and micro-mixing ability of the liquid streams. It also is a continuous feed reactor which can be applied to many processes that have relied on large volume and high residence time designs like batch or continuously stirred tank reactors (CSTR).While the SDR can be used for many different processes, it excels greatly in a specific few. These include processes that rely on precipitation and uniformly mixed reactants. These traits allow for SDRs to be used in the bottom-up production of nanoparticles, where particles are created through nucleations and subsequently crystal growth. This is where batch reactors and CSTRs aren’t as easily applied due to their high volumes and lack of sufficient mixing ability. Top-down processing where bulk material is ground down into nanoparticles is typically avoided when trying to achieve nanoparticles of a certain size and narrow size distribution due to the lack of control over the process.Both silver and titanium dioxide nanoparticles have a realized and open market to enter with predicted growth and new applications coming out consistently. The cost to produce the materials is rather low and the production ability seems high enough, especially with silver, that a company could actively pursue using an SDR to produce the nanoparticles with success. Since the proof of concept and idea is already detailed, there would be a low cost of entry into these markets as well. The revenue from such could be used to support R and D into quantum dots or pharmaceutical nanoparticles.Silver Nano Particles Production at $14.25/gram Sell Price ($285/20/ml):
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Aqueous Turbine Technology Point-of-use, on-demand, tunable phase change (solubility of botanical in liquid), for water process reactions. The underlying science is hydrodynamic sonochemistry. The basic concept was developed back in 2004 for the rapid conversion (green chemistry) of liquid CO2 into fuel-grade ethanol, methanol, and butanol. The same technology can be used for cell lysis (current) and in-situ fractionalization of isolate (future development). The core technology is a series of devices on a common shaft, similar to a air breathing turbine, but this one uses water. Patented.New technology (since 2021) is pinned disc cavitation. Email us for a detailed analysis. Sonochemistry ExplainedEmail: Cavitation Processing Analysis
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Advantages The advantages of a water based solvent and using SDR technology:1. Eco-Extraction: pure water is used as the solvent. 2. Small Footprint SDR2000: four 20 ft. shipping containers provide a modular extraction facility. Larger extraction systems use 40 ft. shipping containers.3. Proven Technology: Spinning Disc Reactors and hydrodynamic cavitation is well-proven in the food processing and pharmaceutical industry.4. No Fire Code Restrictions: unlike high pressure and volatile solvents, water processing extraction has minimal code compliance.5. GMP: systems are built to GMP standards.6. Silent Closed-Loop Operation: The extraction system runs with a low audible footprint. The system is closed-loop to conserve water.7. Most Energy Efficient Extraction System Available: Because water is the solvent, the system is the most energy efficient process in the industry. CO2 requires high pressure (and maintenance prone) special pumps, and some like Apex Supercritical require noisy air compressors.8. Better Environment for Workers: since water is used as the solvent, there are no volatile (i.e. flammable) materials to handle. There are also no airborne chemicals to breathe in or need for huge air exhaust systems.9. Full Spectrum Oil Right Out of the Machine – Craft Extraction: the SDR produces a full spectrum crude oil right out of the system. This can be combined with a carrier oil (i.e. coconut oil) and bottled for direct sale to the consumer. The oil is rich in all extracted components, and may be further processed in to lower value isolate which is in high demand everywhere.10. Push-Button Operation: because high pressure or volatile solvent operation is not needed, the flows of water can be controlled by a SCADA computer system which has lower worker input.11. Rapid Oil Extraction: this is the fastest extraction method available, and accomplished by instantaneous hydrodynamic cavitation. Cell lysis occurs in under a second.12. Dual Flow: the extraction system has a dual-flow processing circuit, which allows either system to be paused for maintenance, while the system is still performing the extraction process.13. Plug-and-Play: the system is build into four (or more) modules, which can be shipped anywhere in the world, and set up indoors, or outdoors. The modules are connected together by modular power and water conduits for rapid installation. Typically a system can be ready for extraction in a few days.14. Raw Input: you can back-up your walking floor trailer or other storage system to convey into the SDR hopper, in whole bud or flower format. The SDR does the rest.15. Wet or Dry: we recommend you dry prior processing, so that you can store your flower without any mold or degrade. This gives you a much longer processing window then trying to process out of the field without drying. Longer term storage necessitates drying of the flower, then bagging (vacuum bag or freezer) storage to preserve valuable components.16. Fast ROI: the return on investment is fast, due to the larger processing capacity, and lower solvent consumable costs. Payback time is typically a few weeks or less.17. Continuous Feed: this is the only extraction system on the market that is continuous feed. All other botanical oil extraction systems are batch processing (you put into a vessel, where it is extracted over time).18. Wave of the Future: this type of processing is not only good for the enviroment, and workers, it is also good for the consumer. With government and local regulations, it will quickly become the standardized method of pure oil extraction.19. Reduces Bottleneck at Harvest Time: this method of fast and efficient extraction will reduce the bottleneck which batch processors experience at harvest time. SDR processors can use their machines to offer toll-processing (contract processing) for other farmers, or groups with large amounts of botanicals.20. Made in the USA: the SDR was developed and is manufactured in the USA.21. Better than Ultrasound Assisted Extraction: UAE involves the use of ultrasound ranging from 20 kHz to 2000 kHz. The mechanic effect of acoustic cavitation from the ultrasound increases the surface contact between solvents and samples and permeability of cell walls. Physical and chemical properties of the materials subjected to ultrasound are altered and disrupt the plant cell wall facilitating release of compounds and enhancing mass transport of the solvents into the plant cells. The procedure is simple and relatively low cost technology that can be used in both small and larger scale of phytochemical extraction. The benefits of UAE is mainly due reduction in extraction time and solvent consumption. However, use of ultrasound energy more than 20 kHz may have an effect on the active phytochemicals through the formation of free radicals. A Review on the Extraction Methods Use in Medicinal Plants, Principle, Strength and Limitation
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Actual hydrodynamic cavitation and cell lysis from using a Infinity Supercritical SDR system using hops mixed with waterActual hydrodynamic cavitation and cell lysis from using a Infinity Supercritical SDR system using hops mixed with water 100x microscope magnification |
Actual hydrodynamic cavitation and cell lysis from using a Infinity Supercritical SDR system using hops mixed with water 400x microscope magnification |
Actual hydrodynamic cavitation and cell lysis from using a Infinity Supercritical SDR system using hops mixed with water 400x microscope magnification |
Actual hydrodynamic cavitation and cell lysis from using a Infinity Supercritical SDR system using hops mixed with water 400x microscope magnification |
Actual hydrodynamic cavitation and cell lysis from using a Infinity Supercritical SDR system using hops mixed with water 100x microscope magnification |
Actual hydrodynamic cavitation and cell lysis from using a Infinity Supercritical SDR system using hops mixed with water 100x microscope magnification |
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