The rapid growth of the botanical processing industry has demanded innovation in supporting equipment and technology. While many technologies have improved dramatically over the past few years, oil and gas extraction equipment has remained largely unimproved.

Aptia founder Shale Flora says that “Hydrocarbon processors have been forced to settle for substandard equipment as equipment manufacturers have focused more on importing cheap equipment than on designing high quality innovative solutions. This has forced hydrocarbon processors to be extremely creative in tailoring and customizing their systems to get the performance they need. Our goal in developing the HCE platform was to innovate and solve as many common problems as possible. “

Through intelligent engineering, the Aptia team delivered a powerful, reliable and sensitive hydrocarbon extraction solution for botanical processors. The main advantages of Aptia’s HCE platform include:

Rapid recovery of solvents

Hydrocarbon processors are used to waiting for the solvent to recover and then waiting again for this solvent to cool for extraction. These breaks lead to a loss of productivity and a reduction in the extraction rate. When designing the HCE platform, Aptia’s engineering team carefully sized the evaporation, condensation and cooling equipment to ensure that the solvent recovery and cooling rates match. at the rate at which the solvent is needed to continue the extraction. This improvement allows for almost continuous extraction.

Strategic modularity

Strategic modularity has been engineered into the HCE platform so that growing companies can scale their operations without replacing the entire extraction system. Each HCE system is initially configured to match the performance metrics for each treatment facility and can be easily expanded. For example, the recovery capacity of an Aptia HCE system can be doubled from 100 Lbs / Hr to 200 Lbs / Hr by adding a subunit, or can be increased to 500 Lbs / Hr by adding a film parts kit falling.

Thoughtful engineering

The Aptia HCE system is designed to eliminate nuisances and inefficiencies such as manually activating / deactivating recovery compressors, managing extract foam during recovery, mitigating inconsistent product quality, ‘Waiting for slow recovery rates and replacement of poorly rated valves and equipment that operate at temperatures as low as -80 C.

The Aptia team is proud to include the HCE Hydrocarbon Extraction Platform among its wide range of powerful and intelligently designed botanical processing equipment solutions.

For more information visit https://aptiaengineering.com/equipment/refinement/hce-hydrocarbon-extrctor/or email: [email protected]

About Aptia Engineering

Aptia Engineering is a specialized engineering and manufacturing company that provides processing equipment to hemp and other industries that is powerful, efficient and reliable.

Aptia strives to reduce the total cost of ownership by optimizing all systems in terms of throughput, efficiency, capital investment and sustainability. Designed and built in the United States, Aptia’s equipment is innovative and robust, giving our customers a distinct competitive advantage.

Aptia is unique “More than metal“The philosophy ensures that our customers benefit from application-specific engineering and innovation, superior project execution, and unmatched pre-sales and after-sales technical support and service in the industry. Industry Successful manufacturing depends on more than just hardware.

Our state-of-the-art processes include hydrocarbon extraction, solvent recovery, winterization, wiped-film distillation, as well as custom solutions.

SOURCE Aptia Engineering