Hi Guys,
We are in the process of designing a Nano brewery using Sungood 3BBL Stainless Steel Kettles. (120Gal HLT with Herms, 120Gal Mash, 154Gal Boil kettle)
Unfortunately 3 phase power at our brewery is not available immediately which makes us have serious initial power issues, so we are going to only be able to run two 5500W elements in HLT or two 5500W elements in the Boil kettle. (Each has 4 2" TC elements ports, so we can upgrade to 4 elements later when we have 3 phase power)
We would not be able to run the 2 Elements in the HLT and 2 Elements in the BK at the same time, as it exceeds our maximum supply when added to pumps and refrigeration.
I would like to know if anyone has experience with using the 3BBL Sungood kettles with the direct gas heating with their heat shields in place?
So my design for now has to be hybrid, so we can get up to temperature faster we will heat water in the HLT using gas initially, and heat up the mash water in the BK at the same time also using LPG gas.
Possibly even use electric and gas at the same time, to heat faster when we require it while circulating the water.
Then once we are at temperature we will pump the mash water across to the Mash tun from the BK and only run off the two elements, in the HLT and control with PID for mashing and then for sparging.
For double batching it would also allow us to run the boil in the BK using the elements, while already starting to heat water in the HLT with gas direct fire for the next batch.
I am concerned on how well direct fire would work with the BK as in the drawings from Sungood the outlet pipe is on the center of the conical base, and will in turn be exposed when using a burner to direct fire?
Do you think I would have an issue with the BK's pipe being exposed, I can't see if it is 100% exposed or not but it looks to be exposed?
Any advice on this would be really appreciated, as I plan to circulate the wort during the boil from the center outlet and back into the tangential inlet while we are boiling and don't want to find out this solution would end up burning my wort if I need to use gas direct fire at any stage while the wort is in the boil kettle?
Then we are looking at using a Chuggar SS Max pump which has a flow rate of 17GPM for our water pump and wort pump.
The fittings on the Herms are 1" TC, but then on all the other outlets and inlets are 1.5" TC.
I thoughts are to standardize all our tubing to 1", and then to reduce all 1.5"TC to 1" TC as our pump has a 1" inlet and a 3/4 outlet, so I do not see any point of going larger?
Do you think 1" would be the right size for 3BBL?
Or should we be standardizing on 1.5"?
Any comments or ideas would be a great help?
We are in the process of designing a Nano brewery using Sungood 3BBL Stainless Steel Kettles. (120Gal HLT with Herms, 120Gal Mash, 154Gal Boil kettle)
Unfortunately 3 phase power at our brewery is not available immediately which makes us have serious initial power issues, so we are going to only be able to run two 5500W elements in HLT or two 5500W elements in the Boil kettle. (Each has 4 2" TC elements ports, so we can upgrade to 4 elements later when we have 3 phase power)
We would not be able to run the 2 Elements in the HLT and 2 Elements in the BK at the same time, as it exceeds our maximum supply when added to pumps and refrigeration.
I would like to know if anyone has experience with using the 3BBL Sungood kettles with the direct gas heating with their heat shields in place?
So my design for now has to be hybrid, so we can get up to temperature faster we will heat water in the HLT using gas initially, and heat up the mash water in the BK at the same time also using LPG gas.
Possibly even use electric and gas at the same time, to heat faster when we require it while circulating the water.
Then once we are at temperature we will pump the mash water across to the Mash tun from the BK and only run off the two elements, in the HLT and control with PID for mashing and then for sparging.
For double batching it would also allow us to run the boil in the BK using the elements, while already starting to heat water in the HLT with gas direct fire for the next batch.
I am concerned on how well direct fire would work with the BK as in the drawings from Sungood the outlet pipe is on the center of the conical base, and will in turn be exposed when using a burner to direct fire?
Do you think I would have an issue with the BK's pipe being exposed, I can't see if it is 100% exposed or not but it looks to be exposed?
Any advice on this would be really appreciated, as I plan to circulate the wort during the boil from the center outlet and back into the tangential inlet while we are boiling and don't want to find out this solution would end up burning my wort if I need to use gas direct fire at any stage while the wort is in the boil kettle?
Then we are looking at using a Chuggar SS Max pump which has a flow rate of 17GPM for our water pump and wort pump.
The fittings on the Herms are 1" TC, but then on all the other outlets and inlets are 1.5" TC.
I thoughts are to standardize all our tubing to 1", and then to reduce all 1.5"TC to 1" TC as our pump has a 1" inlet and a 3/4 outlet, so I do not see any point of going larger?
Do you think 1" would be the right size for 3BBL?
Or should we be standardizing on 1.5"?
Any comments or ideas would be a great help?
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