We performed our first experimental run on the CEPE prototype unit on July 9th 2019. The test was video recorded and took ~15 minutes overall.
The following is a brief summary of the results and outcomes.
A 10.0 Gram sample was milled in a hand grinder and placed into the input tray. The CEPE prototype was pre-heated to 180 C.
The distilled water flow was set to about 3 mL /second and allowed to flow out of the CEPE into a graduated 250 mL beaker (photo 2).
Once we terminated the run, the beaker contained a milky white water solution (photo 3), which was separated into several test tubes and about 120 mL was poured into an evaporation
tray (photo 4) to allow the water to be evaporated off and the test tubes were capped.
Once the water had completely evaporated (at room temperature) a photomicrograph was made of the residue on the surface of the evaporation tray at a magnification of 100X (photo 5).
The milky solution in the test tubes remained without change and without sedimentation until this writing (7 days) (photo 6). This is evidence of the nano-particle size of the extracted compounds.
0.27 mg of the sediment on the evaporation tray was scraped off with a sterile razor blade (photo 7) and dissolved into a 1mL sampling vial of HPLC grade Methanol and was analyzed using the
GC resulting in the Chromatogram of photo 8.
Analysis indicated a high response at the target compounds.
Exciting results indeed, particularly noting that the extract remains fully suspended with an even distribution in water after a full week with no evidence of sedimentation or flotation.
This indicates a high potential for infused edible/ beverage applications.