A lot of people or even TEKs recommend heating Naphtha prior to applying it to an extraction. Heat increases solubility of DMT in Naphtha by far and this will accelerate the migration of DMT into the Naphtha.
Sounds logically and as we think *Naphtha has to get hot for extraction* one would conclude to simply heat the Naphtha, thus achieving this effect.
But in reality heating the Naphtha is like heating nothing at all. The reason comes in physical chemistry: All matter has a heat capacity that defines how much heat is needed to be transfered into the object to raise its temperature.
Along with other surprising properties derived by its molecular structure, the heat capacity of water is also exceptionally high.
In contrast the heat capacity of hydrocarbons is very low.
This means the same amount of heat will induce a much higher temperature increase in hydrocarbons, but only a slight increase in water.
Now coming from the opposite direction you will see the consequence:
Making Naphtha hot and making it touch water, thus equilibrating their temperatures in the middle based on their heat content, the total heat taken up by Naphtha is still quite low and this will make the water not rise in temperature at a noteworthy level.
Now here is the calculation so you have some actual numbers to see what I mean:
(Scenario: 100 ml Naphtha is used to extract from 500 ml soup)
Conclusion: Heating only the Naphtha and not the soup will not make ANY difference.:!: A mixture of Naphtha/Water will always be around the initial temperature of water, except you would mix 100 ml Water with 5000 ml Naphtha.:thumb_dow Therefore the water need to be heaten up.:thumb_up: Everything else is like leaving it at room temperature in the first place.
PS: I would even advise to not only heat to 50 °C, but to 60 °C. I just typed 50 as people call it *make it a little warm*. But I would say heat it as much as possible, just as high that it wont start to boil (common boiling range 60 - 80°C). It is often told
"higher temp will cause more impurities". But when using MHRB you will still not even get any real impurities with 60 °C. So just do it, you will see, it will just produce as clean Spice as low-heat-Naphtha.
Sounds logically and as we think *Naphtha has to get hot for extraction* one would conclude to simply heat the Naphtha, thus achieving this effect.
But in reality heating the Naphtha is like heating nothing at all. The reason comes in physical chemistry: All matter has a heat capacity that defines how much heat is needed to be transfered into the object to raise its temperature.
Along with other surprising properties derived by its molecular structure, the heat capacity of water is also exceptionally high.
In contrast the heat capacity of hydrocarbons is very low.
This means the same amount of heat will induce a much higher temperature increase in hydrocarbons, but only a slight increase in water.
Now coming from the opposite direction you will see the consequence:
Making Naphtha hot and making it touch water, thus equilibrating their temperatures in the middle based on their heat content, the total heat taken up by Naphtha is still quite low and this will make the water not rise in temperature at a noteworthy level.
Now here is the calculation so you have some actual numbers to see what I mean:
(Scenario: 100 ml Naphtha is used to extract from 500 ml soup)
Conclusion: Heating only the Naphtha and not the soup will not make ANY difference.:!: A mixture of Naphtha/Water will always be around the initial temperature of water, except you would mix 100 ml Water with 5000 ml Naphtha.:thumb_dow Therefore the water need to be heaten up.:thumb_up: Everything else is like leaving it at room temperature in the first place.
PS: I would even advise to not only heat to 50 °C, but to 60 °C. I just typed 50 as people call it *make it a little warm*. But I would say heat it as much as possible, just as high that it wont start to boil (common boiling range 60 - 80°C). It is often told
"higher temp will cause more impurities". But when using MHRB you will still not even get any real impurities with 60 °C. So just do it, you will see, it will just produce as clean Spice as low-heat-Naphtha.
