Hi all,
I have a 5000 litre bright tank and am trying to decide where to place it in relation to my bottler. Ideally, the tank and bottler will be in separate rooms (though only about 15 ft apart). This raises the following questions:
1. Rather than run the bottling line through a doorway from tank to bottler (obstructing the doorway), I'd like to send it up the wall, over the door, and then into the bottler. So, the liquid would be travelling about 9 ft high from the bottom valve of the tank to the high point above the door, and then down a few feet to the bottler. I imagine this would work when the tank is mostly full, but what about when it has only 200 litres left, for example? Does anyone have experience bottling with head height like this? Does it work? Are there problems associated with it?
2. What is generally regarded as a maximum healthy distance between tank and bottler?
3. Does anyone know of a good method to save product from the line at the end of a day's bottling? Can it be pushed back into the tank somehow? Or, is there a way to send it into the bottler without drawing more product from the tank into the line?
Thanks for your help!!!
Mike
I have a 5000 litre bright tank and am trying to decide where to place it in relation to my bottler. Ideally, the tank and bottler will be in separate rooms (though only about 15 ft apart). This raises the following questions:
1. Rather than run the bottling line through a doorway from tank to bottler (obstructing the doorway), I'd like to send it up the wall, over the door, and then into the bottler. So, the liquid would be travelling about 9 ft high from the bottom valve of the tank to the high point above the door, and then down a few feet to the bottler. I imagine this would work when the tank is mostly full, but what about when it has only 200 litres left, for example? Does anyone have experience bottling with head height like this? Does it work? Are there problems associated with it?
2. What is generally regarded as a maximum healthy distance between tank and bottler?
3. Does anyone know of a good method to save product from the line at the end of a day's bottling? Can it be pushed back into the tank somehow? Or, is there a way to send it into the bottler without drawing more product from the tank into the line?
Thanks for your help!!!
Mike
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