Disclaimer – this post does not address all the safety issues for crystallization of CBD, Pentane and other volatiles can be very dangerous due to their low flash points. Don’t try this without consulting your safety officer and evaluating all of the possible safety concerns. As always, wear safety glasses and other personal protective gear when working in a lab.
Quality CBD crystals begin with Quality CBD distillate
The starting material should be extracted CBD oil that has been winterized and distilled. CBD distillate should be clear. Cloudiness means there are contaminants like water, waxes and fats. If the oil is cloudy try winterizing again until the oil becomes clear.
Crystallizing oil with contamination will lead to poor yields.
CBD Crystalization Equipment
A glass jacketed vessel with stirring will be used to dissolve and crystallize the CBD. A heating/cooling bath is connected to the vessel jacket and will be used to control the temperature of the vessel.
ACS grade pentane will be the solvent. This can be dangerous stuff. Consult your safety officer!
Dissolving CBD Oil
Dissolve the clear CBD oil in pentane. Make sure the jacketed vessel’s vent/condenser is connected to an appropriate blower motor or fume hood for pentane vapors. The boiling point of pentane is 36 °C. Even at lower temperatures, pentane will release many vapors. BE CAREFUL AND TAKE ALL PROPER PRECAUTIONS! Make sure the vessel condenser is cooled to -20 °C. Add 1 part pentane to 3 parts CBD oil (some oils require slightly more or less pentane) in the jacketed vessel. Turn on stirring and turn on the heating bath and set to 45 °C. Wait until the solution reaches 45 °C and all the oil has dissolved.
Precipitation
Set the bath to 5 °C. Slow the stirring. As the solution cools it will become more viscous. Adjust the stirrer to keep the RPM above 120. CBD crystals will spontaneously form or “crash out” of the pentane solution.
Collect CBD Crystals
Once precipitation stops, flush or physically remove The CBD crystals from the reactor. Vacuum filter the crystal/liquid slurry to remove the mother liquor from the CBD crystals. Rinse the crystals with ice-cold pentane to rinse impurities from the crystal surfaces. More rinses with pentane can improve poor color, but losses in total yield will occur.
Reprocess Mother Liquor
The mother liquor still contains dissolved CBD. This solution can be reprocessed! One caveat is that the mother liquor will accumulate THC over time. This sets a practical limitation to the number of crystallization.
CBD Purity
CBD distillate with 70 – 75% CBD content can be crystallized to produce CBD isolate (crystals) with a 90+% purity or higher.
CBD distillate with less than 70% CBD can be crystallized to produce CBD isolate with 85+% purity or higher.
CDB crystals can be redissolved and then recrystallized to improve the potency even further.
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I have been making my isolate with 70 + percent distillate. Could you make isolate with a lower percentage? Say like 50%?
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Hi,
Yes it is possible to crystallize CBD from low purity crude or poorly refined oil. However, low starting purity will reduce both yield and purity of the crystallized CBD. The lower purity CBD “isolate” will have more color, smell, and THC content than if you used distillate. This will cause you to need a recrystallization step which is not the end of the world but has a real cost.
Luke
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