Hello everyone, Nick with Precision here, and I'm here today with our all-new XMU hydrocarbon
extractor platform. We're ultra excited to show you this new platform and it's really
the culmination of our entire experience with extracting with hydrocarbons over the last eight
years. So, some of you that know our company from back in 2014 you know we released the first PX1.
We learned a lot from that and subsequently, we've had a lot of iterations. We worked very
closely with our clients to build what is today the ultimate extractor, and all the features of
this platform are all coming together to make the best possible products for our clients.
Some of the things that you'll notice right away is just the overall build quality and we'll look
at that in closer detail, but one thing that I wanted to note right away is this is a GMP ready
completely compliant platform and we're going to show you some of the features that make it
so desirable. So let's take a closer look at how the process runs and some of the features.
So I know there's a lot going on here and it seems like a very big complicated machine but
it's actually extremely easy to operate. So what I want to do is walk you guys through the actual
process flow and as we walk through the process flow we're going to look at all the features
that make this machine so elegant, so effective, so efficient. So starting on this side you see
you've got three solvent tanks and one of the huge advantages of having these three solvent tanks is,
not only do they cool faster, but there's a massive amount of volume. So we're actually
running a solvent to biomass ratio in this machine of up to nine to one. So,
you guys that like to run a lot of solvent, we've got a lot of solvent on deck to do so but even
more so you know we've got jacketed columns on these we've also got the sight glasses so you
can see what you're doing. But you actually also have an immersion chiller within each of these
columns. So when we're talking about coming back with hot solvent or we're talking about filling,
the time to temp on this thing depending on which chiller you put on there is extremely, extremely
fast and everything on this machine is meant for efficiency so that you can do a run, you can turn
it you can have another run. So when we look at some of the other features really on the solvent
side of this is these are all interconnected so they all really function as one so it's almost
like having a large solvent tank altogether with the ultra-effective efficiencies of having three
solvent tanks that cool super-super fast. You can see over here you've actually got a lockout valve
on here so if you're at the end of the shift in your GMP compliant facility obviously you
need to tag out and lockout, tag in and unlock when you're using the machine. So that's just
one of the compliance features. One of the other things that you see is that this entire manifold
is already supported by a nitrogen back pressure system so when you're running very very cold
solvents you need that backpressure because you lose that vapor head of having the warm solvent.
Without going into a ton of technical detail, for the operators that do understand that, it's
all already integrated into this machine. It's all hard pipe beautifully. Everything is completely
here right within an arm's reach and super-super efficient and effective. So as the solvent travels,
it's going to cool down and it's going to travel out and eventually come over here into
the material column, which is what we're going to cover next. So let's take a look at that.
All right, so looking at our material column side, this is kind of really where the operator
would prospectively stand and this is kind of like the control center of this entire machine.
So right away what you're going to notice is you've got a thermocouple, and your thermocouple
is reading to your solvent temperature. Your actual inbound solvent temperature from the bottom of
your solvent tank there with the line coming out. So this is the feed line coming into the material
column here. What that's going to do is feed in your solvent. But, you can see that all your valving
,this is your source in valve, but all your valving everything is all centralized when you look over
here also your vacuum, for vacuuming the system down, your nitrogen your process out. So actually
draining the material column into the next stage, it's all right here it's all together.
And this is actually also a quick swap column. So when we say quick swap this is just actually
hanging on a hanger that we have and if you look here, you know, you can pull the pin,
the safety pin and you can lift this column and you can hot-swap these columns. Now the connection
on this, to hot-swap it is actually just a three-quarter inch sanitary clamp, and we use
the sanitary clamp for the GMP purposes for the process connections right it has to be sanitary
has to be cleanable so it's just a simple 316 sanitary clamp. And down here you've also got a
clamp to blow out the biomass. So really you know when we're talking about if we wanted to repack
this column or if we wanted to dump loose material, some guys will run socks, some guys will run loose
materials, some guys will run an additional column. All those are fine the machine can run whatever you
guys want to run in terms of an operator and it makes it very universal very effective. You know
we can take this off we can hot-swap it with a pre-loaded column that gets our material turns
very very quick very very fast. Your nitrogen back pressure everything else is already pre-fitted.
You already have all the line sets together and everything is sitting right here within your
control panel. Okay so let's look at what happens when we come out of that material column and when
we come out of that material column the way this system is designed it comes into these surge tanks.
And these surge tanks effectively capture that solvent and the reason that we want that is so
the solvent isn't sitting on the biomass for too long. We know that retention time is very specific.
Meaning if we leave solvent on biomass too long it starts picking up and dissolving things that
we wouldn't otherwise want. Undesirable things like chlorophyll and lipids and so forth and so on. So
we want to get that solvent off of that material column we want to stage it for evaporation. Now
it's a specific reason that we're staging this solvent because normally if you're running live
resin you would rinse through, you'd come right into collection over here. Which we'll look at,
but this machine has a fully integrated CRC column, which we're going to look at soon. We
can hold all sorts of different media in that CRC column. And what that means is, we need to stage our
solvent and we need to manipulate the temperature a little bit in order to have the most efficient,
effective color remediation, or any sort of other remediation that you're running. That could
be pesticides, that could be lipid remediation, that could be chlorophyll remediation. All these
sorts of things depending on what sort of media you're running. We'll talk about that more as we
go through the process here. But, really what's important to understand is these columns are
sitting here ready to capture your solvent. They're equal to the volume of the solvent columns. So
we can capture all of our solvent. We can capture multiple material runs depending on your solvent
ratio. And of course all this is already jacketed it's already pre-plumbed. You already have your
nitrogen back pressure push. Everything is sanitary clamps. Everything is compliant.
It all looks very very clean, very very safe, and again if we're running live resin we don't have
to necessarily use the surge tanks if we're not using CRC or we're not running something
that needs the surge tanks. But what we can do is we can just absolutely bypass the surge tanks and
go right from the material column right into the collection. If we're running something that
doesn't require these surge tanks. The other benefit of having the surge tanks is, as we're
holding the solvent here it's warming up, right? So we're using less thermal energy. We're actually
taking the thermal energy from the environment and warming the solvent a bit before it goes into
collection. And what that means is you're going to have a faster recovery. So everything that we've
designed on this machine, as I said before, has been for efficiency and effectiveness but also optimal
energy usage. And almost you could consider this a green machine, right? This is the most
energy efficient machine for extracting hydrocarbons in the industry right now
and it really is extremely effective at what it does and we're going to show you some of
the features that make it even more desirable, in that aspect. So let's continue on down the
tour here. Okay, guys so let's continue to look at the process here on the all-new XMU. And
we talked about the surge tanks, and coming out of the surge tanks, you're actually coming into
what this is right here. This is a cross-current heat exchanger. So this is one of the things that
makes the XMU very special, makes it very green, very efficient. And what this does is it
effectively takes the warm vapor from the collection, and it circulates it in a cross
current, from the cold solvent that's coming from your process. And what that does is it's actually
cooling the solvent before it goes back into your solvent tanks, and it's warming the solvent
before it goes into your collection tank. So we're using that energy we're recycling that
energy, and this is one of the things that makes this system recover many many times faster than
any traditional system. Proprietary to our system, and it ultimately results in faster turns, more
throughput, more effectiveness, in terms of operator efficiency. Now the other thing that we can really
look at here is our CRC column, on this side, and this CRC column is fully equipped. Not only do we
have a throttling valve to feed into it at any given rate that we desire, but this can capture
any sort of media. We've got multiple filter plates down here. These filter plates can be changed for
any sort of micron or filter plate to really sit below that media. And whether you're using anything
like bentonite clays, you're using activated carbons, you're using all sorts of different
things. I mean, we have another video that goes into all the details of all the different
medias that you can use. What they're efficient and effective for in our CRC video and maybe
we can put a link to that actually in this one, so you guys can get some more information on the CRC.
But what's really important to understand is it's fully integrated already into this system,
right? So, if we've got low-quality oil we can turn that low-quality oil into extremely high quality
oil with this system. All inline, all integrated with one solvent, one process, with absolute and
maximum efficiency. So if we choose to use this, great, if not obviously we can bypass it. We can
bypass the surge tanks. We can go straight from solvent from material into collection. So that
brings us now into our collection tank. Once we've passed through the cross current heat exchanger
we've manipulated the solvent temperatures in order to be the most effective recovery possible.
Then we're going to come into the collection chamber and ultimately we're going to do the final
evaporation of that solvent. So what we're really doing here, for those of you that are green, is
we're taking that solvent that we ran over that biomass, we're evaporating that solvent, we're
turning it into the vapor state, and the oil that you're picking up from the plant is left behind.
So that's what's going to be left behind in this collection chamber. So now this collection chamber
is heated, we apply a little bit of heat, and then what happens is that comes off as a vapor. It comes
off, it's pushed through this. We call this a molecular sieve column or an expansion column.
It takes any water vapor that's picked up from the biomass and it gets it out of there.
And then ultimately back through the cross current heat exchanger, to cool down, and back into the
solvent tank, so your solvent is reclaimed. Let's look at some of the features that we actually have
on this collection chamber. So, obviously, you've got your sight glasses up here so you can see
what you're doing and what's going on. You've got a very nice volume, but very efficient, very effective.
All the heat plumbing we'll take another look at, but it's all pre-plumbed. So you guys see
all this stuff back here? You don't have lines going all over the place that you're going to
trip over. Everything on this system is already pre-plumbed it's right where it should be. Right
where you want it and we've designed this with the operator in mind. We've taken into account all
of our feedback that we've gotten from all of our operators. Hundreds and hundreds of operators over
the years, and really worked as a cross-functional team in order to create the most efficient,
effective version of this system. So again, your nitrogen, already pre-plumbed, your heating
and hot water that's circulating through these jackets, already pre-plumbed. And if we look down
here at our collection chamber, you know, you've got a single clamp that you have to take off. You don't
have to play with the big ASME clamps anymore, that are extremely cumbersome. You've just got
this single clamp. It's auto bolt mechanism so you can knock this off. You don't even have to hold the
other side. And then, if you wanted, you could add an actual pour spout down here some of you guys like
the soft serve. It looks like a little gun that you can, you know, shoot the oil out of. Alternatively,
you can do your pour off or if you just want to put a tray under here to capture things,
you can put a tray under this sanitary valve here and you can actually capture all your oil there.
One of the other things that's really cool that we put on this is a thermocouple on the bottom
of there. That's ultimately going to give you your readout temps and you can see your readout
temps over here from the Class One Division One (C1D1) thermocouple display. That's very important
because oil, especially artisanal oil, and the terpenes within that artisanal oil are very
sensitive to temperature. So you don't want to cook your oil and just because your water jacket
is one temperature that doesn't necessarily mean it's indicative of your temperature of
your evaporation, right? Because we have all that evaporative cooling that's going on down there so
operators really wanted to be able to monitor that temperature to make sure that they're never going
to cook off any of their terpenes. But conversely, on the other side, they want to make sure that
they're using the maximum amount of heat in order to hit maximum efficiency because the lower the
heat the slower the evaporation the slower the process, right? So we need to thread that needle,
and really the temperature and the data is what we want to thread that needle. So once we've gone
out of the collection chamber, again that vapor is going to come up, it's going to pass through
this column right here. This is what we call an expansion column or a molecular sieve column.
Usually, we'll put 3A or 4A molecular sieve in there, and that again, that just absorbs the water.
Any water that you would pick up from running live resin, or any water you'd pick up from your biomass.
And then ultimately that vapor is recondensed and comes back into your solvent tanks. You've got your
fresh solvent. You've got your oil. You're ready for another run. And while this process is taking place,
this can be pretty much automated. You know, you need to keep an eye on it, obviously. Make sure
the temperatures are good. But you're changing your material column and you're already set up
for another run. So super excited to show you guys this. We're going to have some videos of
this machine running rather shortly. Let's look at a couple other features that distinguish this
and make it a really effective system. One of the other super cool things I wanted to show you guys
is, obviously, you've got your compliant locking casters. Super beefy, never going to seize up. Can
roll over any sort of cracks in the lab, if you have any. But, the process connections. So our heater
in and heater out right here. To hook up to our heater, to feed everything that's a heated process
in here. And then our chiller in and chiller out, and you can see how cool these process connections
are. We also have our vacuum and our nitrogen process connections right here. Ultimately what
that means is this machine is meant to be oriented so that this side, with the solvent tanks on it
here, is up against the wall. your Penetrations will ultimately go through the wall and you can
have a very quick easy process connection. Again, no lines anywhere to trip over, no hazards,
and a very efficient, very effective short run for your line. So you're not losing any of the thermal
capacity when it's coming out of your TCUs. So we thought that this was a very cool thing to have a
feature on here, and I think it looks extremely clean, and it'll work extremely effectively for
most of the operators in the field. Everyone, thank you so much for watching our XMU video overview.
Again, this is almost a decade of engineering, all together with all of our clients, hundreds of
installations. Taking account all your feedback. Every single piece of advice that you guys have
given us, we've integrated into this machine, and ultimately it's the most efficient, most effective
and I couldn't believe when my team told me what the cost was on this, relative to the amount of
features and the effectiveness you have in this machine, it's an amazing amazing value proposition
guys. So give us a call you can come in, you can check it out. We're going to have one running
in our lab here shortly, that you guys can actually get some hands-on time. Give one of our reps a call,
one of our product specialists, they'll get you some quoting, get you integrated. Talk about all
the different features, all the different options for the TCUs. I mean you can really make this
thing a spaceship for your lab and ultimately it means you can make all sorts of different products,
right? You can turn nasty oil into great oil. All in one machine. You can make live resin, you can
do crumble, you can do shatter, you can do waxes, you can do sauces, you can do diamonds. Whatever
you want to make, this machine can do it. There's no other reason to put any other machine in your lab
besides this one. I mean, again, this is a decade of all of our collective knowledge, of the industry's
collective knowledge of extraction, coming into this machine. So our team is so excited to present
this to you guys. Thank you all for your continued support, and we look forward to seeing you soon. If
you need help give us a call, shoot us an email, you know we're always available. Thanks so much.