We, well actually I, well actually no one, broke the jacketed vessel reactor a few months ago. After no luck finding a glass blower that could repair for less cost than than a new vessel, our new one arrived and we installed today. Also a reroute of some chiller lines to speed up the return of fluid. It was tedious, and always a little nervous working with metal tools and large pieces of expensive glass. One our grow operators, Farmer Phil as I call him, came down to help and he only broke one small piece of glassware.
Now we can get back to making full spectrum CBD oil. The harvest is in, holiday season sales have been brisk, and we have a very busy winter/spring nationwide tour. I guess it’s time for us to get to work. Want to see some of the great products we make with our full spectrum CBD oil? Check out our products page here Brown&Co. The pictures below are of the broken vessel still in place and the new one all put back together.
For those who are asking the question; “What am I looking at?”. This is a jacketed glass vessel reactor. It’s basically a large glass jar inside of a slightly larger jar, the sealed space between the “two jars” is the jacket. It has pure silicone oil, that can be heated or cooled, pumped through it (see heater/chiller 2nd to last picture). It has no contact with the “inner or smaller jar”. The whole vessel “jar” is sealed and put under vacuum. The CBD oil is extracted from the hemp bio-mass with ethanol. The CBD oil/ethanol blend is put into the inner vessel. The silicone oil is heated and the inner ethanol/CBD oil blend is stirred. The ethanol is evaporated and the vacuum draws it across the chiller coils (see chiller last picture) to condense it back to liquid and recover it. This leaves only full spectrum crude CBD oil in the vessel for collection.