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What heat exchangers can a brewery use

What heat exchangers can a brewery use?

When brewing quality beer, a strict brewing process needs to be followed and temperature is strictly controlled. With the growing popularity of craft beer, microbreweries, and products made from all-natural ingredients, brewery operations need to be as efficient as possible to keep up with the competition. Whether you’re producing beer or cider, one of the most important pieces of equipment to improve efficiency is the heat exchanger. Because a lot of heat is required in the brewing process, and maintaining the required energy levels can be very expensive, heat exchangers are required for heat recovery and reuse. Next, Micet Craft engineers will answer you with what types of heat exchangers can be used in breweries.
What heat exchangers can a brewery use?

Why should your brewery invest in a heat exchanger?

Brewing beer is a complex process that requires you to pay close attention to temperature control. Heat exchangers provide your brewery with a reliable way to cool wort quickly. Not only can heat exchangers help your brewery brew better-tasting products, but they can also help you deliver yields. Heat exchangers can provide the necessary heat treatment for the brewing process of beer, such as cooling, pasteurization, fermentation, aging, and cleaning brewing equipment.
In addition, heat exchangers help you reuse the heat generated during production, thus helping breweries reduce energy use and emissions. A quality heat exchange system also reduces the amount of water used in the brewing and cleaning process.

Which heat exchangers are suitable for breweries?

For the brewing industry, there are three main types of heat exchangers to choose from:
Plate Heat Exchanger

Plate Heat Exchanger

A plate heat exchanger consists of a series of plates connected to a large frame. This type of heat exchanger is ideal for taking up a small space on a production floor to provide a high level of production efficiency. If your brewery is tight or small, a plate heat exchanger may be the best choice.
Advantages of plate heat exchangers:
  • Energy use: Plate heat exchangers are five times more efficient than shell and tube designs. In many cases, you can recover more heat by replacing your existing shell and tube models with a compact heat exchanger. A series of plates in a plate heat exchanger form gasket spaces between the plates. These spaces alternate between two fluids, one hot and one cold. This design can provide very high heat transfer efficiency because the plates create a much larger surface area than a shell and tube design that fits in the same space.
  • Space usage: Shell and tube heat exchangers require more standing area than plate heat exchangers.
  • Ease of Maintenance: High-quality plate heat exchangers can run efficiently for a long time without maintenance, and the plates are very easy to inspect and clean, and you can easily remove the plates for cleaning and repairs. The cleaning interval depends on the amount of dirt or scale, as a coating of sludge or scale on the surface can reduce the thermal efficiency of the heat exchanger.
  • Capacity Adjustment: Plate heat exchangers make capacity adjustments relatively easy, and plates are easy to access, add and remove. In contrast, shell and tube heat exchangers are installed with a fixed capacity and can only be replaced when capacity is increased.
  • Capital Outlay: Cost of ownership is always a key factor in the decision-making process. A plate heat exchanger is the lowest cost option because it achieves a high heat transfer coefficient, providing the most efficient heat transfer with the smallest surface area. In addition, the maintenance cost of the plate heat exchanger is also quite low, the main cost is the replacement of gaskets and plates.
Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger

Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger

A shell and tube heat exchanger looks just like its name: a bank of tubes placed inside an outer shell. Many breweries use shell and tube heat exchangers because it is a more affordable option. Due to the simple design, this type of heat exchanger is better suited to operate at higher temperatures and pressures. If your brewery is looking to increase its production, you will consider shell and tube heat exchangers. Shell and tube heat exchangers can cool wort faster than other types, and the faster the wort is cooled, the more beer batches your brewery can produce. It is important to note that shell and tube heat exchangers take up a lot of space, so you need to have enough room in your facility to accommodate them.
Shell and coil heat exchangers

Shell and coil heat exchangers

Shell and coil heat exchangers have layers of circular tubes placed inside the shell. Due to its flexible design, this type of heat exchanger can be easily customized to meet the exact needs of your brewery. Shell and coil heat exchangers are also compact, making them ideal for small breweries. Another advantage of shell and coil heat exchangers is the low maintenance cost, which gives your brewery more time to focus on beer production and new processes. While shell and coil heat exchangers are very convenient to use, it is important to note that they may struggle to keep up with larger beer production. When considering a purchase, consider how much beer is being produced regularly.

Summarize

Overall, a plate and frame heat exchanger is a very good choice for small breweries where space is at a premium. Additionally, plate and frame heat exchangers support modularity, allowing installers to assemble and disassemble heat exchanger units on site. The units weigh about 6 percent of comparable shell-and-tube units while occupying about 10 percent of the floor space.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Plate heat exchangers in breweries can help cool and pasteurize wort and prepare it for fermentation. The machine transfers heat from the wort to the cooled liquid by contacting a shared metal plate that prevents cross-contamination. In addition, these plates have elastic gaskets and are open to the surrounding atmosphere, eliminating any chance of fluid mixing.
Plate heat exchangers maximize the surface area for heat transfer, thereby speeding up the cooling process and allowing faster fermentation of the wort. With very high heat transfer efficiency, brewers can also increase production. In addition, the heat absorbed from the boiling wort can also be reused to save energy costs.
Plate heat exchangers are primarily used to remove heat from the wort, not to add heat during pasteurization. Also, the plate heat exchanger is so hygienic that the water that has absorbed the heat from the previous batch of wort can be used for a new mash conversion, allowing the boiling to start earlier.
Plate heat exchangers are modular in design, which means you can add more plates to meet demand as you scale up and increase production. Micet Craft can also provide you with upgraded plate packs and new gaskets to help ensure your brewing operation always takes advantage of ultra-modern heat transfer technology.
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If you plan to open or expand the brewery, you can contact Micet Craft directly. Our engineers will design and manufacture brewery equipment according to your brewing process. Of course, we will also provide you with a complete turnkey solution. Also, if you plan to expand the brewery, we will provide you with customized solutions.

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