accurate total fat from FAMES.

[lgchrom]

Just because the petro ether is very flamable and my lab is all one room including the flash point tester on the other side with an open flame.

Aah, I see. Though, if properly cooled with water, the Soxhlet device should put out no fumes at all. But if you have open flame in the lab, better safe than sorry.

[Steve Reimer]

And if you lose the cooling water to the soxhlets and all the solvent evaporates into the room...

[dblux_]

And if you lose the cooling water to the soxhlets and all the solvent evaporates into the room...

Yes, accidents happen. Glass breaks sometimes even without obvious reasons.
These should be taken into account.

[MSCHemist]

Well I've decided I am going to buy a soxhlet extractor and do the USDA-FSIS method. 3.5g sample with sand, dry in an oven, soxhlet extract with pet ether for min 80 cycles, boil off ether, dry remaining ether in oven and weigh and then take that for FAMES.

[KM-USA]

We'd have to have an expiration date for the sand.

[JGK]

Normally I wouldn't mind soxlet but my lab is kind of limited with hood space and I have no water plumbing other than one sink and the dishwasher. I operate a small satellite lab and I try to make it into a swiss army knife lab where I can do as much as possible albeit not always the most efficient way. I have low sample load but high variety.

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