{"id":691,"date":"2024-02-17T22:49:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T21:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/?p=691"},"modified":"2024-02-17T22:49:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T21:49:41","slug":"idea-extracting-volatile-oils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"Idea: extracting volatile oils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve saved some lab ware and equipment from the dumpster. I wonder if I can use some of it to make a distillation setup for essential oils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some things I want to try extracting oil from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Banana peel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mandarine peel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ginger<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cherry tree petals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rhododendron petals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monarda didyma<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mentha aquatica<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pine\/fir\/spruce needles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Green walnut peel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I could start with putting the material straight into my 500mL round bottom flask, which is incidentally the largest still size I can use legally. However it would only fit about 250mL, so adding a biomass chamber with it would be very nice. It would be great if I could somehow use my ~1.8L reactor, it is the perfect shape, however it is missing a lid. I think my jacketed chromatography column could make a decent condenser. However none of them have matching glass fittings..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thinking of buying a oil\/hydrosol separator, or a Clevenger apparatus, to separate and reintroduce the hydrosol to the boiling flask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of things to figure out still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve saved some lab ware and equipment from the dumpster. I wonder if I can use some of it to make a distillation setup for essential oils. Some things I want to try extracting oil from: I could start with putting the material straight into my 500mL round bottom flask, which is incidentally the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distillation","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}