The love of my life:
""The PILOT 15 is designed for throughputs between 10 and 80 lb/hr (4.5 to 35 kg/hr), depending on feed material characteristics.""
Keep that at the low end of that scale for ketones and freebases, still much MORE, much BETTER than ANY other system which occupies that SMALL space, and delivers those ultrahigh purities.
"" *Note: Because Myers Spinning Disk Technology replaces the material on evaporator heated surface at rates of 8 to 10 times faster than Wiped Film and similar technics, significantly less surface area is required. ""
This one has only an 15 inch diam. rotor.
F.e. to reach these kinds of kg/hr's, you would need a 2.36 square foot normal molecular still system.
So ONLY for the pro's : http://www.myers-vacuum.com/pilot15frameset.html (http://www.myers-vacuum.com/pilot15frameset.html)
READ all info on the page, and start to wonder why YOU didn't got such a system for your last birthday!
Start asking this one to get used to it for your next millionaire birthday, or when cashing in that unexpected LastWillfromUncleBill : http://www.myers-vacuum.com/lab3frameset.html (http://www.myers-vacuum.com/lab3frameset.html)
""The LAB-3 has a 3-inch rotor with a throughput capability of about 0 - 2 lb/hr (0 to 1 kg/hr).
Like the other still models, the LAB-3 with the pumping system will operate around 1 X 10-3 Torr pressure.""
Don't forget, these fuckers are designed as a batch/continuous distillation unit!
I dare anyone to find this kind of throughput/purity per m2 space-occupied, by any other means.
I will be highly interested to learn if there is perhaps a (much?) cheaper one than the 15". LT/
PS: all the others, keep it at aiming at that nice, affordable 5 liter digitalized Rotavap from Heidolph or Buchi.
You have NO idea what these centrifugal molecular stills C O S T.
WISDOMwillWIN
The spinning-disc technology LaBTop referred to in Post 256183 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=7638.msg25618300#msg25618300)
(LaBTop: "Re: Increase distillation rate", Chemistry Discourse) is generically known as a molecular still. It does provide greater plate separation than an extended column, in linear dimension. If spinning discs were stacked up, on the same spindle, the form factor could bee better than with a lot of long tubing.
turning science fact into <<science fiction>>