Distilling limonene?

[PlainCoil]

Cactus is cheap. Pickling lime is cheap. Water, vinegar and carbonated water are all dirt cheap. The only thing that hurt's SWIM's wallet is d-limonene.

SWIM read in another thread about distilling used limonene easily, and SWIM would love to know how. He's never distilled anything before...

Any help would be appreciated.... by SWIM.

thanks

 

[MagikVenom]

Any good organic chemistry book that goes over standard lab practices should give the procedure for distillation. The difficult expensive part will be constructing the apparatus. It can be a bit dangerous ie still explosion so do lots of research and make sure you completely understand the distillation process and follow all safety practices to a T. Not sure about distilling orange oil never looked into that.

PEACE
MV

 

[benzyme]

limonene distills at 176C, i think.
(go with all glass setup, plastics and rubber may soften/warp)
under reduced pressure, you could distill it at a much lower temp (vac. distillation).


steam distilling limonene involves simple distillation of water with ground orange and lemon peels.