No flammable ethanol or high pressure CO2 or infrastructure required.
Kadi's only waste product is dry and solvent-free plant material.
Elimination of hazardous solvents reduces infrastructure and mitigation requirements.
Our single-step process takes only two hours from plant material to finished product.
Built-in decarboxylation. Eliminates evaporation, winterization, and distillation steps.
Our water-miscible carrier can be directly mixed into beverages.
Our simplified process greatly reduces labour and material input requirements.
Direct evaporative capture avoids undesired by-products like waxes and other contaminants.
The CEPE® process is completely solvent free. Instead of dissolving the target compounds, the compounds are evaporated by gentle heating (like a vaporizer) and using patented technology are directly captured from the air. Our process uses an inert sweeper gas which prevents oxidation of the compounds as they are evaporated.
The temperature of the sweeper gas is tightly controlled, and determines which compound will be evaporated from the botanical material, and as such the lowest vapor temperature compound is collected first, followed by the next higher vapor temperature compound in a process which is akin to the distillation process used in solvent-based extraction processes. At temperatures where toxins or un-desirable compounds are known to exist, the vapor is not collected and converted but is instead filtered and exhausted out of the system. This process eliminates nearly 100% of bacterial and fungal contaminations, and drastically reduces heavy metal content.
The vapor at any specific temperature (contains mostly the specific compound having that vaporization temperature) is passed into the CEPE®(Centrifugal Electrostatic Precipitator) section, where our patented electrostatic technology converts the vapor back into a liquid state for collection.
Our CEPE®II Mini Industrial Unit has successfully demonstrated conversion of the vapour back into Nanoparticle droplets and direct injection of these nanoparticles into a number of different carrier fluids. Carrier fluids include direct injection into VG (Vegetable Glycerine) and MCT oil (Medium-Chain Triglycerides oil). We have also now demonstrated direct production of high purity broad spectrum distillate oils. The botanical material never comes into contact with the carrier fluid or the produced oils.
The VG product can be used as an e-fluid and is miscible in water based drinks for direct consumption as a beverage. It could also be used as an additive in foodstuffs and cosmetics, and can also be used directly as a tincture.
MCT oil is often used in medicinal applications, and can be produced directly using the Phase II CEPE.
The CEPE® process has extremely high throughput, and low operating costs.
Existing methods of extracting compounds from botanical materials, primarily rely on the use of a solvent of some form to directly treat or soak the botanical materials in a way that releases all or most of the available soluble compounds in the plant material into the solvent, leaving only the non-soluble parts of the plant behind (which are discarded).
Once the solvent used has been drained and then evaporated off, both desired and un-desired compounds dissolved out of the plant material remain behind as a complex mixture of compounds forming a viscous sap or tar like substance, and many other compounds as well as possibly chemical fungicides, insecticides and potentially fertilizers and other trace chemicals or heavy metals (from the soils used to grow the original botanical material).
Post processing of the Crude using winterization, evaporation and distillation (each requiring additional industrial equipment and expertise) is used to separate and isolate the desired compounds from the un-desired or un-used compounds.
This overall process in one form or another is how existing botanical extraction technology works, and always uses some form of solvent in the process. The solvent extract process also leaves behind hazardous waste materials which must be safely disposed of. Solvent extraction requires many precise steps, expert operation, consumable and hazardous materials.
Less steps from plant to extract
CEPE® directly produces refined products, rather than a mixed-product crude that must be further refined. This eliminates 4-5 steps from the typical solvent-based extraction process. This means less time, less labour, less handling of the material, and less consumables used. Our process does not even require grinding of plant material before processing.
Safety and reduced capital expendature
By eliminating the use of flammable ethanol or high pressure CO2, CEPE® requires less training and less risk mitigation infrastructure to operate. This results in significantly reduced capital expenditure, and a smaller factory footprint.
No hazardous waste
The only waste produced by CEPE® technology is dry plant material. The desired compounds are directly evaporated from the plant material using a temperature controlled gas, so the plant material never comes into contact with a solvent or the carrier liquid (VG, MCT Oil, etc).
High throughput
The CEPE®III industrial machine can process 25kg of plant material in two hours. The efficiency offered by our single step process drastically increases maximum monthly throughput and is ideal for processing large quantities of material. This is a 50-80% gain over competing ethanol and CO2 extraction systems.
Lowest operating cost
The simplicity and efficiency of the CEPE® process eliminates significant labour, consumable, and operational costs, leading to a 60-80% reduction in operating costs compared to competing ethanol, CO2, and hydrocarbon extraction systems.
Only one input
The CEPE®III industrial machine includes its own Nitrogen Generation Plant, which produces the inert sweeper gas. The only input required from starting material to a finished broad spectrum isolate is electricity. No bottles of gas, no barrels of solvents, no chemical reagents. This contributes to our incredible cost savings.
High purity
The CEPE® process directly evaporates volatile compounds (flavanoids, terpenes) and as such leaves behind undesired by-products. Chlorophyll, waxes, heavy metals, and pesticide residues are not evaporated and are left behind in the original biomass. Micro-organisms like bacteria, molds, and yeasts cannot be evaporated, and are left behind in the waste plant material.
C.E.P.E. (1 Step)
The CEPE®III machine processes 25kg of plant material and captures 97.3% of target compounds in only 2 hours!*
*Based on performance results from CEPE®II mini-industrial demonstration unit.
Ethanol/CO2 Extraction (6 Steps)
Typical extraction methods are a multi-step process that requires moving material from station to station, the use of consumables, reagents, and a high level of expertise.
Meet the real CEPE®II - the only one of its kind solvent free botanical extractor. Our patented technology has been in development for about three years and CEPE®II is a fully functional miniature version of the in-development industrial-scale CEPE®III. This machine has successfully demonstrated solvent free extraction into both MCT oil, and VG carrier fluids. All products produced by the CEPE®II machine have been laboratory validated and passed inspection. The mini-industrial CEPE®II machine can process 100 grams of unground flower in 2 hours. The CEPE®III full-scale industrial machine currently in development will process 25kg in 2 hours.
Not only can CEPE® produce traditional broad spectrum distillate, it can also infuse directly into Vegetable Glycerin as a carrier. Vegetable Glycerin (VG) is already approved as a food and beverage additive and is also approved for e-fluid products. The VG-carrier extract is directly water-miscible and could be directly added to beverage products without any further processing. VG is also approved and commonly used as an additive in cosmetics, candies and foodstuffs.
High quality traditional distillate produced in a single step.
A colloid suspension in various edible oils can be directly made into capsules after dilution to required dosage.
A colloid suspension in vegetable glycerin can be directly added to beverages, foodstuffs, and cosmetics.
All processes including VG and edible oil suspensions are carried out in a single-step with no further separation, distillation required, suspension required. Colloid suspension products are produced directly by the machine and require only simple dilution to the required dosage.
The CEPE®III Machine is currently under construction in Nanaimo, BC.