Various Types of Vaporizers

Vaporizers, these days, are offered in a large variety as well as in a very good range of prices. As the price of the vaporizer increases the quality to the product also increases. The simplest vaporizer usually makes use of a jet of flame from a lighter as a source of heat.

Even though common lighters may also be brought in use, still torch or jet flame lighters are given priority, as they do not produce any sort of soot.

Though, when making the use of a vaporization hose or pipe along with a filter for flame. For Example, a flame fueled from ethanol (wick type) is preferred to a flame, which is fueled from a gas of industrial grade, (like a lighter), as the left out gases are just carbon dioxide and water vapors.

Precise and accurate vaporizers usually make use of an electric element for the generation of heat, regularly using the concept of temperature control through thermostatic applications. A fact to know is that the high-end vaporizer models can easily cost numerous hundred dollars of U.S. currency.

Largely, vaporizers can be categorized on the basis of their means of providing heat to the material:

Through thermally conductive

Through convection

Through thermally radiated

In the process of thermally conductive, the material is positioned on a metal shield, which is thereafter heated to discharge the active ingredients. These vaporizers were the very first kinds that were available in the market, and they are still in their production process. This uninterrupted contact between the hot metal surface and the herbs cause them to get burnt; that’s why this method is not preferred and is hardly ever brought in use in concern to the modern vaporizers designs and techniques.

In the process of heating through convection, the material never gets in contact to the heating source that is the element. Instead of it, a gust of hot air is made to pass through it, heating it at a very fast rate, and allowing the liberation of the active ingredients. This process of heating releases more active constituents as compared to those released in conduction heating.                                                                                      

In the process of heating through radiation, the material is exposed to brilliant light. The material absorbs this radiant energy and its temperature increases. These vaporizers may be rare but they are actually capable of copying the efforts of vaporizers with convection technique. So these are the various types of the vaporizers.