So, I came into a situation I didn't setup where they kept taking space from the brewery, without making sure they had all of the lines and equipment for the brewery first. Basically I need glycol for my trunk lines and need to take the glycol from the header from the brewery chiller for the fermenters. Owners won't spring for a power pack and there is no space for a secondary chiller.
Right now the only thing I can think of is to have two 1 1/2" ball valves welded to each header outside of the cold room, and then fitting a CO2 line splitter to each, connecting 3 glycol lines to each header, via the splitter, and then running them into the cold room and attaching them to the trunk lines. I've attached the basics of my setup below.
-I have a 500l chiller for 8 unitanks and a CLT. The chiller tank is wedged between the CLT and 4 of the unitanks, and then the headers run one floor up to feed the other 4 tanks up there.
-I serve out of a cold room with 6 unjacketed 10bbl brites. The serving pumps and 3 separate trunk lines are in the cold room and connect to each tank. The cold room is set to run between 2 and 4C.
-These 18 pumps run 6 styles to 3 different floors, from the middle floor, with the bottom floor being about a 50m run. (there is a flash chiller for the bottom floor)
Definitely not an ideal situation, but I've got to make it work. Has anyone ever split their glycol like this, or have better idea of how to do it? I'm more worried about using a gas splitter on a glycol line, but I can't think of anything else. The chiller right now is set to -4C, but if I do this I was going to change it to -2C, which I imagine by the time it travels up one floor, through a SS ball valve and splitter it'll be warm enough not to freeze the lines.
Right now the only thing I can think of is to have two 1 1/2" ball valves welded to each header outside of the cold room, and then fitting a CO2 line splitter to each, connecting 3 glycol lines to each header, via the splitter, and then running them into the cold room and attaching them to the trunk lines. I've attached the basics of my setup below.
-I have a 500l chiller for 8 unitanks and a CLT. The chiller tank is wedged between the CLT and 4 of the unitanks, and then the headers run one floor up to feed the other 4 tanks up there.
-I serve out of a cold room with 6 unjacketed 10bbl brites. The serving pumps and 3 separate trunk lines are in the cold room and connect to each tank. The cold room is set to run between 2 and 4C.
-These 18 pumps run 6 styles to 3 different floors, from the middle floor, with the bottom floor being about a 50m run. (there is a flash chiller for the bottom floor)
Definitely not an ideal situation, but I've got to make it work. Has anyone ever split their glycol like this, or have better idea of how to do it? I'm more worried about using a gas splitter on a glycol line, but I can't think of anything else. The chiller right now is set to -4C, but if I do this I was going to change it to -2C, which I imagine by the time it travels up one floor, through a SS ball valve and splitter it'll be warm enough not to freeze the lines.
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