Product Refinement
Product Refinement stage focuses on enhancing the quality, purity, and potency of extracts. It's essential for producing market-ready products that meet regulatory standards and your customers' expectations. In Extraction Magazine, we cover the latest in refinement technology and all the applicable methods. Detailed analyses of techniques, chromatography, solvent recovery, and decarboxylation. Our goal is to help professionals optimize their refinement processes and ultimately help you to make sure these processes are efficient, compliant, and capable of scaling to meet market demands.
Optimizing Supercritical CO2 Extraction for Medicinal Cannabis
Supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) extraction is one popular method for the commercial extraction of cannabis. In 2020, Australian researchers investigated...
The Big Freeze: Cryogenic Winterization
Winterization is a purification process used for removing oils, fats, and waxes. It involves dissolving the extract in a solvent...
Centrifugal Partition Chromatography: pH-Zone-Refining Method
Different types of chromatography can be used for the production-scale purification and isolation of cannabinoids from cannabis. Centrifugal partition chromatography...
SFE & SPE in the Extraction, Isolation, and Purification of THC
Delta-9–tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the center of attention as far as medicinal cannabis goes, though some would argue for cannabidiol (CBD)....
Isolating Cannabinoids via Supercritical Fluid Chromatography
Cannabis contains hundreds of bioactive components, including cannabinoids. While there are over 90 cannabinoids in cannabis , only a handful...