Wondering if there's been any advances in cooling tech for cold rooms and glycol chillers? I've got a 12'x38' cold room that is very well insulated and will need two-zone cooling (one for primary (50s-60s F) and one for conditioning/finished beer storage (34 F)), as well as potential stand alone cooling for jacketed fermenters down the road. Biggest concern in the cold room is moisture control. I just want to avoid the old-skool electricity black hole version of chilling - there's gotta be something pushing the efficiency envelope out there...
PS - Anyone with ideas on how to incorporate geothermal into the mix? My brewery building is heated and cooled with a 5-ton geothermal unit and if I could figure out how to run lines to an exchanger in the cold room, at the very least to pre-chill glycol? Or is it a case of too complicated for the $$?
PS - Anyone with ideas on how to incorporate geothermal into the mix? My brewery building is heated and cooled with a 5-ton geothermal unit and if I could figure out how to run lines to an exchanger in the cold room, at the very least to pre-chill glycol? Or is it a case of too complicated for the $$?
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