A machine to extract cannabis oil | To study …

A group of industrial designers from the University of Buenos Aires has created a prototype designed to facilitate the extraction of vegetable oils in order to help those who need cannabis oil for their treatments. The extraction machine of essential oils for herbal medicine has been named "Nectar".

Franco di Paolo, Manuel Frontini, Patricio Martinez, Facundo Moura and Ignacio Riuz Jhonson were the inventors of the project. They decided to "respond to an existing problem on the social level". complicated and with health risks because they are toxic solvents. "Nectar greatly improves the typical processes, which use solvents leaving toxic residues," explain their creators in a video.

Young people saw the need and the opportunity to reflect on their thesis topic on industrial design in 2017, the same year the government regulated the 27 350 law, which governs medical and scientific research on the medicinal use of the cannabis plant and its derivatives.

The creators of Nectar have qualified the sanction of the law "from before and after" in the investigation since the official text implemented the "National Program for the Study and Development". research for the medicinal use of the cannabis plant, its derivatives "Unconventional Treatments.

The difference of Nectar, besides its reduced size compared to other machines used in the rest of the world, lies in the fact that it uses a principle of supercritical fluid. The prototype uses only carbon dioxide to extract oils from all types of plants. In addition, this allows a customization of the extraction, both in temperature, time and maceration. "This makes it possible to control the parameters of the extraction, with what allows us to extract selectively by guaranteeing the repeatability of the results," said its creators.