I've a spare pump in the brewery that I'm thinking of adding to our chiller.
My idea is that I'd have two pumps in the chiller, one to cycle the glycol from the reservoir to the cooling system. And the other from the same reservoir to the FVs and back again.
At the moment we've no independent temperature control on each of the FVs, so we've to manually monitor and open and shut valves to maintain the desired temperature in each FV.
We've a project in the works, where by we'll be monitoring the temp of each of our 4 FVs separately, and be only opening the valve to send glycol to them when they go over the set temperature. I figure that this way when all the FVs are at correct temperature, I can have the pump turn off automatically. The other pump attached to the cooling system can work away independently, keeping the reservoir at 0°C for when it's needed.
Is this a workable idea?
My idea is that I'd have two pumps in the chiller, one to cycle the glycol from the reservoir to the cooling system. And the other from the same reservoir to the FVs and back again.
At the moment we've no independent temperature control on each of the FVs, so we've to manually monitor and open and shut valves to maintain the desired temperature in each FV.
We've a project in the works, where by we'll be monitoring the temp of each of our 4 FVs separately, and be only opening the valve to send glycol to them when they go over the set temperature. I figure that this way when all the FVs are at correct temperature, I can have the pump turn off automatically. The other pump attached to the cooling system can work away independently, keeping the reservoir at 0°C for when it's needed.
Is this a workable idea?
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