FAQ of Glycol cooling system in Microbrewery
- Dec 11, 2017
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FAQ of Glycol cooling system in Microbrewery
I am Jana from Tiantai beer equipment company. Some clients asked some questions about the glycol cooling system for their brewery project. We share the topics here, so hope it give you reference too. And welcome to contact us or leave message below if you have different ideas and comments.
The brewery glycol system we configure is: CLT+GWT+2Xchillers+Accessories
1. The chilling unit section price is heavy. Could you suggest a cheaper solution ? Maybe 1 stage plate exchanger is enough with just 1 CWT. What do you think ?
The price is high, the reasons are:
a. Here is an extra CLT, it is used to cool the wort separately. (The GWT cool the fermenters, brite tanks and CLT separately)
b.2Xchillers are configured: The chillers are sensitive machine that needs careful operation and reasonable maintenance during using.
So 2xchillers will reduce the running load of using one chiller, and besides, once one chiller has problem, the other chiller can still work to protect the existing beer in the tanks.
The more economical solution is:
-Remove the CLT, then increase the GWT to bigger capacity,
-Change the 2x chiller to 1x bigger chiller
So the GWT is used to cool everything: wort, fermenters, BBT. This is also welcomed by many breweries.
The wort is cooled by tap water in the first stage, and by glycol water at second stage.
To save the glycol cooling energy, the brewaster can increase the tap water flow and amount at the first stage.
2. Do I really need a GWT ? The chiller cool down fermenters + CLT with glycol water and I cool down wort with CLT.
The GWT can reduce the work load of the chiller--the chiller can chill the glycol water and storage sufficient cooling energy in the GWT in advance.
This is a welcomed solution in many micro breweries.
Some customers prefer another different kind of chiller that contains a small glycol tank inside (such as 50L or 100L), and the chiller capacity is usually big. Normally in this case, the chillers keep running for longer time to chill the fermenters as it dose not storage cooling energy in advance.
This is also an available solution.
3. Do the 2 chillers work on the same time on the same circuits ?
The 2 chillers are connected and wired in a parallel way. The brewmaster can chose to open either only one chiller or two chillers on the control panel.
If the brewer only open one chiller, then the other chiller will not work.
If the brewer opens two chillers, then both of them wok together.
We are beer brewing equipment manufacture. Welcome to contact us if anything we can help.
Cheers,
Edited by Jana
Sales manager
[email protected]
I am Jana from Tiantai beer equipment company. Some clients asked some questions about the glycol cooling system for their brewery project. We share the topics here, so hope it give you reference too. And welcome to contact us or leave message below if you have different ideas and comments.
The brewery glycol system we configure is: CLT+GWT+2Xchillers+Accessories
1. The chilling unit section price is heavy. Could you suggest a cheaper solution ? Maybe 1 stage plate exchanger is enough with just 1 CWT. What do you think ?
The price is high, the reasons are:
a. Here is an extra CLT, it is used to cool the wort separately. (The GWT cool the fermenters, brite tanks and CLT separately)
b.2Xchillers are configured: The chillers are sensitive machine that needs careful operation and reasonable maintenance during using.
So 2xchillers will reduce the running load of using one chiller, and besides, once one chiller has problem, the other chiller can still work to protect the existing beer in the tanks.
The more economical solution is:
-Remove the CLT, then increase the GWT to bigger capacity,
-Change the 2x chiller to 1x bigger chiller
So the GWT is used to cool everything: wort, fermenters, BBT. This is also welcomed by many breweries.
The wort is cooled by tap water in the first stage, and by glycol water at second stage.
To save the glycol cooling energy, the brewaster can increase the tap water flow and amount at the first stage.
2. Do I really need a GWT ? The chiller cool down fermenters + CLT with glycol water and I cool down wort with CLT.
The GWT can reduce the work load of the chiller--the chiller can chill the glycol water and storage sufficient cooling energy in the GWT in advance.
This is a welcomed solution in many micro breweries.
Some customers prefer another different kind of chiller that contains a small glycol tank inside (such as 50L or 100L), and the chiller capacity is usually big. Normally in this case, the chillers keep running for longer time to chill the fermenters as it dose not storage cooling energy in advance.
This is also an available solution.
3. Do the 2 chillers work on the same time on the same circuits ?
The 2 chillers are connected and wired in a parallel way. The brewmaster can chose to open either only one chiller or two chillers on the control panel.
If the brewer only open one chiller, then the other chiller will not work.
If the brewer opens two chillers, then both of them wok together.
We are beer brewing equipment manufacture. Welcome to contact us if anything we can help.
Cheers,
Edited by Jana
Sales manager
[email protected]
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