Is anybody using some sort of heat exchanger to circulate distillation cooling water for their condensers? We use anywhere from 150-250 BBLs of city water for our cooling condensers on our 4 different pot stills. I want to took into somehow making this a closed loop system without a lot of space. Right now, we push the cooling water to our HLT which can be heated by steam. We don't mind heating the water up to our 170 F setpoint, since it is much cheaper than dumping the water. Does anybody have any experience using a glycol heat exchanger to recirculate a days worth of cooling water supply for stills? We have a jacketed 1100 gallon tank we could use as the reservoir. We have a glycol supply line within 10 feet that we could pipe up to a heat exchanger, but I don't want to cooling water to get too cool. 60 F is the ideal temp to run for our condensers.
Anybody have any ideas or experience?
Thanks,
Derek
Anchor Brewing and Distilling
Anybody have any ideas or experience?
Thanks,
Derek
Anchor Brewing and Distilling
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