The present application relates to a method for preparing L-methionine crystals with an improved bulk density. As the L-methionine crystals prepared according to the method for preparing L-methionine crystals of the present application may have a bulk density of up to 800 g/L, the L-methionine crystals are expected to reduce storage and transport costs of L-methionine powder and improve working conditions due to improved fluidity of the powder.

The disclosure includes systems and methods of producing cannabidiol (CBD) isolate. In some embodiments, a method includes dissolving, via an agitated vessel, CBD oil in a solvent to thereby form a slurry comprising CBD isolate and excess solvent, and sending at least a portion of the slurry from the agitated vessel to an agitated Nutsche filter dryer. Some embodiments include pressurizing an internal portion of the agitated Nutsche filter dryer to remove the excess solvent and capture the CBD isolate in a filter of the agitated Nutsche filter dryer.

The present disclosure relates to processes for treating an aqueous composition comprising lithium sulfate and sulfuric acid. The processes comprise evaporatively crystallizing the aqueous composition comprising lithium sulfate and sulfuric acid under conditions to obtain crystals of lithium sulfate monohydrate and a lithium sulfate-reduced solution; and optionally separating the crystals of the lithium sulfate monohydrate from the lithium sulfate-reduced solution. The processes optionally further comprise concentrating the lithium sulfate-reduced solution under conditions to obtain an acidic condensate and a concentrate comprising sulfuric acid.

A resin containing a desirable compound is extracted from plant material and dissolved in a volatile non-polar solvent. The solvent is evaporated, cooling the solution and increasing the saturation level of the compound in the solution. A second volatile non-polar solvent, in which the compound is less soluble, is then added to the solution and evaporated. This again cools the solution and increases the saturation level until the compound has started to crystallize. The crystals are then filtered and rinsed. Crystallization is more rapid compared to traditional techniques. The resin is obtained from the plant material using an extraction solvent to form a solution, which is then floated above an immiscible liquid, where it is drawn off through a screen and the extraction solvent evaporated.

A cannabis processing system comprises a grinding apparatus and a cell disruption apparatus. The grinding apparatus is configured to grind wet cannabis cuttings to from a ground, wet cannabis material comprising wet cannabis particles having an average particle size within a range of from about 1 mm to about 3 mm. The cell disruption apparatus is downstream of the grinding apparatus and is configured to disrupt cell walls of plant cells of the wet cannabis particles through one or more of flash freezing, a cellulose solvent, applied negative pressure, and vacuum distillation to facilitate removal of one or more cannabinoids within the plant cells of the wet cannabis particles. Methods of processing cannabis are also described.

Digestion of impure alumina with sulfuric acid dissolves all constituents except silica. Resulting sulfates, produced from contaminants in the impure alumina, remain in solution at approximately 90 C. Hot filtration separates silica. Solution flow over metallic iron reduces ferric sulfate to ferrous sulfate. Controlled ammonia addition promotes hydrolysis and precipitation of hydrated titania from titanyl sulfate that is removed by filtration. Addition of ammonium sulfate forms ferrous ammonium sulfate and ammonium aluminum sulfate solutions. Alum is preferentially separated by crystallization. Addition of ammonium bicarbonate to ammonium alum solution precipitates ammonium aluminum carbonate which may be heated to produce alumina, ammonia, and carbon dioxide. The remaining iron rich liquor also contains magnesium sulfate. Addition of oxalic acid generates insoluble ferrous oxalate which is thermally decomposed to ferrous oxide. Carbon monoxide reduces the ferrous oxide to metallic iron. Further oxalic acid addition precipitates magnesium oxalate which is thermally decomposed to magnesium oxide.

A method for producing high purity D-psicose crystals having a purity of 98% (w/w) or more and a grain size of MA200 or more. The method includes: removing impurities from a D-psicose solution to obtain a purified D-psicose solution; concentrating the purified D-psicose solution; cooling the concentrated D-psicose solution to 30 C. to 40 C. through a heat exchanger; seed crystallizing the D-psicose solution at 30 C. to 40 C. to obtain a seed crystallized massecuite; and full-scale crystallizing the seed crystallized massecuite. The method can produce pure D-psicose crystals in a suitable form for industrial application through an economical crystallization process from the D-psicose solution without using organic solvents.

Provided is a method for purifying a compound capable of providing a high purity compound in high yield and at low cost. The present invention relates to the method for purifying a compound using a purification apparatus, the purification apparatus including: a crystallizing unit including a crystal forming section; and a wash column including a mechanism that forcibly transfers crystals. The crystallizing unit includes N tanks connected in series, wherein N is 2 or greater, a 1st tank is a most downstream tank, a (N)th tank is a most upstream tank, at least the 1st tank is a crystallization tank including a cooling mechanism, and a 2nd and subsequent tanks are each a crystallization tank or a ripening tank. The purification apparatus includes a line that feeds a compound-containing liquid to be purified to at least one of the N tanks. The wash column includes a line that sends a product out; and a line that returns a mother liquor to the crystallizing unit, with the line that returns a mother liquor to the crystallizing unit being connected to at least the (N)th tank. The crystallizing unit includes a line that feeds a slurry from the (N)th tank to the wash column; a line that sends a slurry from a tank among the 1st to (N1)th tanks to the next upstream tank; and a line that is provided to each of the 1st to (N1)th tanks and that sends thereto a mother liquor withdrawn from an upstream tank, wherein at least one of the lines that send a slurry from a tank among the 1st to (N1)th tanks to the next upstream tank is a line that sends a slurry from a tank to the next upstream tank via a solid-liquid separator and that has a line that returns a mother liquor from which crystals are removed in the solid-liquid separator to the tank where the slurry came from, and wherein the line that is provided to each of the 1st to (N1)th tanks and that sends thereto a mother liquor withdrawn from an upstream tank is a line that directly sends a mother liquor withdrawn from a tank one upstream or a line that sends a mother liquor withdrawn from a tank one upstream via a solid-liquid separator. The purification method includes forming crystals of the compound in the crystallizing unit; discharging at least a portion of a mother liquor to the outside of the purification apparatus; separating a slurry containing the formed crystals into a mother liquor and a slurry having an increased crystal concentration; returning at least a portion of the separated mother liquor to the tank where the slurry came from; mixing a compound-containing liquid to be purified fed to the crystallizing unit with a slurry in the crystallizing unit; sending a slurry in order from any one of the 1st to

The present invention relates to the use of cannabidiol (CBD) in the treatment of focal seizures. In one embodiment the patients suffering from focal seizures are children and young adults. CBD appears particularly effective in reducing focal seizures in patients suffering with etiologies that include: Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome; Tuberous Sclerosis Complex; Dravet Syndrome; CDKLS; Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL); febrile infection related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES); Aicardi syndrome and brain abnormalities in comparison to other seizure types. Significantly CBD additionally is very effective in the reduction of a sub-type of focal seizures, focal seizures with impairment.

The invention generally relates to systems with anti-fouling control and methods for controlling fouling within a channel of a plug flow crystallizer. In certain aspects, the invention provides a system that includes a plug flow crystallizer having a channel, one or more heating/cooling elements, each operably associated with a different segment of the channel, and a controller. The controller is operably coupled to the one or more heating/cooling elements and configured to implement a temperature profile within the channel of the plug flow crystallizer that grows crystals in a plug of fluid that flows through a first segment of the channel and dissolves encrust in a second segment of the channel while having minimal impact on crystal growth in the plug of fluid in the second segment of the channel. In certain embodiments, these segments may be cyclically alternated, in that the segment in which crystal grows in one cycle becomes the segment in which crystal dissolves in the next cycle and vice versa, to realize a fully continuous crystallization process.