Brewery heating options: Electric VS Steam VS Direct Fire
- Feb 06, 2021
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Brewery heating options: Electric VS Steam VS Direct Fire
It is important to chose suitable heating methods for your brewhouse. Normally those items need to be considerred: Budget, application, future expanding plan, and building conditions etc. For microbrewery, the popular heating options are electricity heating, steam heating and direct fire heating. So we make a chart below to compare this three kinds of heating methods from our view to explain them more clearly:
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Jana Wang
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It is important to chose suitable heating methods for your brewhouse. Normally those items need to be considerred: Budget, application, future expanding plan, and building conditions etc. For microbrewery, the popular heating options are electricity heating, steam heating and direct fire heating. So we make a chart below to compare this three kinds of heating methods from our view to explain them more clearly:
| Heating Options |
Direct Fire Heating |
Steam Heating | Electric Heating |
| Tank structure features |
The kettle/HLT is built with a fire chamber with inspection manway, burner mounting port,and flue port. |
The kettle/HLT is welded with steam jacket to be able to heated by steam. |
The kettle/HLT is mounted with electric heating coils inside. |
| Extra equipment | 2 burners: 1xburner for kettle, 1xburner for HLT | The kettle and HLT share one same set of steam boiler, and also suitable steam piping& valves etc. | No. |
| Fuel requirement |
It can be LPG or natural gas. Please kindly let the burner supplier advise the suitable burner capacity according to the required thermal power. For example: 300L kettle thermal power: 18kw 500L kettle thermal power: 36kw 1000L kettle thermal power: 72kw |
It can beLPG or natural gas or electricity.Please kindly let the boiler supplier advise the suitable boiler capacity according to the required thermal power. |
No |
| Building construction | A vent port to let flue extend outside the room |
Better have an independent small room (1-2 square meters) to put the steam boiler, just beside the brewhouse. |
Enough electricity power. |
| Electric requirement |
Within 30kw for the whole set of brewhouse (including pumps, chillers, motors etc.) |
Within 30kw for the whole set of brewhouse (including pumps, chillers, motors etc.) |
Normmally big. For example: 500l system: More than 80KW. |
| Volume application | Brewhouse 500L-2000L | Brewhouse above 500L | Brewhouse 50L-1500L |
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Jana Wang
[email protected]
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