Hi All.
I'm looking for a bit of advice before I order my main brewing, CIP and keg washing pumps.
We're about to upgrade from a tiny 1BBL brewery to a 10bbl Frankenbrew-type system (awesome book Tom). The kettle and mash tun are converted dairy tanks and the hlt will just be a small (500L ish) insulated holding vessel on top of the mash tun - strike water and sparge water to be heated in the kettle and pumped to where it's needed.
During sparging, the sparge water will fall on to the grain bed using gravity and the runnings will fall into a grant, also using gravity, from whence they will be pumped into the kettle.
We have a few fermenters and brite tanks en route from Gavin Zhang of Sungood Machinery plus a couple of older vessels repurposed from a winery. Fermenters are dimple jacketed and the brites will be stored in a cool room.
We have 80 odd kegs already and expect to have another 100 or so before the end of the year.
My question is; Will I need a VSD / VFD on at least one of my pumps? I've gotten quotes from a few (NZ) suppliers and I like the look of the Lowara CEA 80/5 1.1HP pumps. The recommendation was for a single phase on a pump cart for keg cleaning, CIP, and backup for brewing, and a three phase with VFD for brewing.
My main question is whether the VFD is actually worth it? Where during the brewing process will I need this much control over the flow rate?
Also will I need a transducer? And a pressure tank?
Thanks in advance for your help
Karl Hayes
Te Aro Brewing Company
Wellington
New Zealand.
I'm looking for a bit of advice before I order my main brewing, CIP and keg washing pumps.
We're about to upgrade from a tiny 1BBL brewery to a 10bbl Frankenbrew-type system (awesome book Tom). The kettle and mash tun are converted dairy tanks and the hlt will just be a small (500L ish) insulated holding vessel on top of the mash tun - strike water and sparge water to be heated in the kettle and pumped to where it's needed.
During sparging, the sparge water will fall on to the grain bed using gravity and the runnings will fall into a grant, also using gravity, from whence they will be pumped into the kettle.
We have a few fermenters and brite tanks en route from Gavin Zhang of Sungood Machinery plus a couple of older vessels repurposed from a winery. Fermenters are dimple jacketed and the brites will be stored in a cool room.
We have 80 odd kegs already and expect to have another 100 or so before the end of the year.
My question is; Will I need a VSD / VFD on at least one of my pumps? I've gotten quotes from a few (NZ) suppliers and I like the look of the Lowara CEA 80/5 1.1HP pumps. The recommendation was for a single phase on a pump cart for keg cleaning, CIP, and backup for brewing, and a three phase with VFD for brewing.
My main question is whether the VFD is actually worth it? Where during the brewing process will I need this much control over the flow rate?
Also will I need a transducer? And a pressure tank?
Thanks in advance for your help
Karl Hayes
Te Aro Brewing Company
Wellington
New Zealand.
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