Wanted any opinions on this particular issue involving a brewkettle using an electric heating element (flange mounted near the bottom of the vessel).
The goal is to heat and boil wort without excessive carmelization and with some degree of efficiency.
A common solution is recirculation of wort (even though the pump requires additional electricity)while the electric element is "on" at a slow flowrate (avoid shearing forces on wort) and through a port in the kettle which has full contact with wort (to avoid hot side aeration and splashing).
I've wikid a bit about forced convection, whereby a pump (in this case) actually increases the heating capacity by influencing formation of convection currents (pushing hot wort up, bringing colder wort down).
The question...in this scenario (even though i may not be able to turn on my pump until the kettle is full) what would be the ideal location of ports, ideal position of element(s), ideal flowrate, and what should be the direction of flow (pulling wort from the top of kettle and pumping thru a bottom port or opposite?)? Also keep in mind there could be a tangential WP port on the vessel as well.
Anybody have experience with this?
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The goal is to heat and boil wort without excessive carmelization and with some degree of efficiency.
A common solution is recirculation of wort (even though the pump requires additional electricity)while the electric element is "on" at a slow flowrate (avoid shearing forces on wort) and through a port in the kettle which has full contact with wort (to avoid hot side aeration and splashing).
I've wikid a bit about forced convection, whereby a pump (in this case) actually increases the heating capacity by influencing formation of convection currents (pushing hot wort up, bringing colder wort down).
The question...in this scenario (even though i may not be able to turn on my pump until the kettle is full) what would be the ideal location of ports, ideal position of element(s), ideal flowrate, and what should be the direction of flow (pulling wort from the top of kettle and pumping thru a bottom port or opposite?)? Also keep in mind there could be a tangential WP port on the vessel as well.
Anybody have experience with this?
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