Brewhouse plate heat exchangers
- Aug 26, 2021
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- tiantai
A plate heat exchanger is composed of multiple profiled stainless steel plates which are connected to each other. The plates are mounted on special support shafts and fixed onto a compact stainless steel frame (painted or not). The product and the cooling medium (cold water or glycol) flow through the plates on separate flow paths in opposite directions.
The heat exchangers most suitable for use in the beer brewing industry are made of stainless steel. Stainless steel is a corrosion resistant material that, if cleaned regularly, does not require special and/or additional maintenance. Stainless steel plates enable good heat transfer between media, without major heat loss.
What does a heat exchanger do?
The purpose of a heat exchanger is to lower the temperature of the wort while it is being transferred from the kettle to the fermenter. The wort temperature must decrease until it reaches a value that is suitable to start the fermentation process. After it's been boiled, the wort must flow through the plate heat exchanger in the opposite direction of the cooling medium. Consequently, the wort temperature gradually decreases, while the cooling medium temperature increases.
Our advice
The use of a single-stage heat exchanger is suitable:
- if you have a source of sufficiently cold water (cooled to at least 13 °C),
- if cooling with cold water can lower the wort temperature to the value, required for the purposes of the brewing process.
The use of a two-stage heat exchanger is suitable if the brewing process requires lower wort temperatures that cannot be achieved only with the use of cold water.
Derrick
Sales Manager
[email protected]
Tiantai Beer Equipment
The heat exchangers most suitable for use in the beer brewing industry are made of stainless steel. Stainless steel is a corrosion resistant material that, if cleaned regularly, does not require special and/or additional maintenance. Stainless steel plates enable good heat transfer between media, without major heat loss.
What does a heat exchanger do?
The purpose of a heat exchanger is to lower the temperature of the wort while it is being transferred from the kettle to the fermenter. The wort temperature must decrease until it reaches a value that is suitable to start the fermentation process. After it's been boiled, the wort must flow through the plate heat exchanger in the opposite direction of the cooling medium. Consequently, the wort temperature gradually decreases, while the cooling medium temperature increases.
Our advice
The use of a single-stage heat exchanger is suitable:
- if you have a source of sufficiently cold water (cooled to at least 13 °C),
- if cooling with cold water can lower the wort temperature to the value, required for the purposes of the brewing process.
The use of a two-stage heat exchanger is suitable if the brewing process requires lower wort temperatures that cannot be achieved only with the use of cold water.
Derrick
Sales Manager
[email protected]
Tiantai Beer Equipment
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