Hello all,
We're a 10hl setup with four single FV's and a coldroom with 8 serving tanks. Coldroom is run from our glycol. Chiller has more then enough power, it'll do 15KW of cooling at -4C (51,000 BTU.) There are 600 liters of 30% glycol in the system with half of that being the buffer tank.
We're thinking of also using this chiller to run an ice water bath for our serving lines. In total we'd be cooling 200 meters of python, 8 product lines plus 2 cooling lines, 8mm (3/8") tubing. 19mm insulated. The plan is to put a copper coil into a 50 gallon plastic barrel and use that ice water in the python coolant lines. I suppose we'll need a thermostat and solenoid controlling the ice buildup on the coil too.
Questions:
-How big of a copper coil to make?
-Calculation for watts cooling/meter of copper coil?
-How much ice water flow is needed through the python cooling lines (LPM or GPM)?
-Should we use 4 cooling lines in the python instead of 2?
-Should we also place another ice bath cooler at the opposite end of the python to handle the load?
Thoughts/suggestions? Thanks in advance!
evan
We're a 10hl setup with four single FV's and a coldroom with 8 serving tanks. Coldroom is run from our glycol. Chiller has more then enough power, it'll do 15KW of cooling at -4C (51,000 BTU.) There are 600 liters of 30% glycol in the system with half of that being the buffer tank.
We're thinking of also using this chiller to run an ice water bath for our serving lines. In total we'd be cooling 200 meters of python, 8 product lines plus 2 cooling lines, 8mm (3/8") tubing. 19mm insulated. The plan is to put a copper coil into a 50 gallon plastic barrel and use that ice water in the python coolant lines. I suppose we'll need a thermostat and solenoid controlling the ice buildup on the coil too.
Questions:
-How big of a copper coil to make?
-Calculation for watts cooling/meter of copper coil?
-How much ice water flow is needed through the python cooling lines (LPM or GPM)?
-Should we use 4 cooling lines in the python instead of 2?
-Should we also place another ice bath cooler at the opposite end of the python to handle the load?
Thoughts/suggestions? Thanks in advance!
evan
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