We have a HLT with an electric heating element. We also live in the midwest with water that's very high in bicarbonates. The beer stone I have been getting in my HLT is crazy. I admit I should have started cleaning it earlier...I go super anal on my cleaning and sani in general but figured the HLT was not such a big deal, it's just a giant water heater right? Well, the stone was getting really built up after 4 months into production. Got in to scrub by hand...serious endeavor! Gave up, got out, did a super hot caustic CIP followed by 125 degree acid #5 CIP for an hour. It got a lot off but there was still stone caked to the walls, and especially the heating element. Scrubbed it off the best I could today, but it was like scraping rocks off the heating coils!
Anyway, obviously I should be doing an acid CIP more often, but what else can I do to fight this crap? Are there any water filters that will keep some of this out of our water? We are currently only filtering the cold water that goes into the mixing station to remove chlorine and not worrying about the water that goes into the HLT, because the chlorine is burned off. But I would be willing to buy a filter if it could help reduce stone. Are there better cleaning chemicals that we can use? Better regimes?
Thanks for any advice...still not looking to clean my HLT more than once a month.
Sean
Anyway, obviously I should be doing an acid CIP more often, but what else can I do to fight this crap? Are there any water filters that will keep some of this out of our water? We are currently only filtering the cold water that goes into the mixing station to remove chlorine and not worrying about the water that goes into the HLT, because the chlorine is burned off. But I would be willing to buy a filter if it could help reduce stone. Are there better cleaning chemicals that we can use? Better regimes?
Thanks for any advice...still not looking to clean my HLT more than once a month.
Sean
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