Can I use dry ice and place it in one of my stacked 7 bbl BBT to chill the whole BBT and actually adding chilling back to the glycol loop, thus chilling the over all system?
Unfortunately we still can't seem to our the system below 55 degree's F. I think the lines have to travel to far, 30 yards in a parking garage, and back behind our kettles, and then have to fill:
(2) 15 bbl FV, (1) 7 bbl FV, and then (1) triple stacked 7 bbt.
Is dry ice a solution so that I don't need to use an additional chiller for the triple stacked BBT, and can supply me with co2 to carb our beer.
The thing with dry ice is that is sublimates with oxygen at a rate of 5lb per 24 hours. But what if I run the current glycol system, purge the tanks with co2 after they've been filled with only dry ice, and either just vent off the co2, gas a beer, or collect the gas.
The biggest issue is a situation where the tank is completely sealed. But I feel that the tanks could handle the pressure and I have a safety air lock.
Another situation is I make a dry ice bath with-in a BBT allow the dry ice to sublimate and then have a coolant reservoir that chills the tanks in a more manageable method. I could refill the tank periodically.
Unfortunately we still can't seem to our the system below 55 degree's F. I think the lines have to travel to far, 30 yards in a parking garage, and back behind our kettles, and then have to fill:
(2) 15 bbl FV, (1) 7 bbl FV, and then (1) triple stacked 7 bbt.
Is dry ice a solution so that I don't need to use an additional chiller for the triple stacked BBT, and can supply me with co2 to carb our beer.
The thing with dry ice is that is sublimates with oxygen at a rate of 5lb per 24 hours. But what if I run the current glycol system, purge the tanks with co2 after they've been filled with only dry ice, and either just vent off the co2, gas a beer, or collect the gas.
The biggest issue is a situation where the tank is completely sealed. But I feel that the tanks could handle the pressure and I have a safety air lock.
Another situation is I make a dry ice bath with-in a BBT allow the dry ice to sublimate and then have a coolant reservoir that chills the tanks in a more manageable method. I could refill the tank periodically.
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