mcgeebc
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I love the smell of brewing, but not everyone in the house agrees. Does this method help eliminate the steam and the smell?
The steam... yes. The smell... somewhat. It won't eliminate it entirely.I love the smell of brewing, but not everyone in the house agrees. Does this method help eliminate the steam and the smell?
@Dockside_Brewing, I look forward to hearing how that beer turns out and if all the DMS gets expelled. The steam condenser is the last thing I'll be purchasing for my system so I'll wait for you feed back before I proceed. Going with a 6" to 2" reducer is probably over kill and I could easily get away with using a 1.5" TC.
Will you be mounting this to the lid or the side of you brew kettle?
this is an extremely interesting thread. I to am eagerly awaiting results from the test batches, though don't really brew a lot of lagers and helles, so it may not matter as much to me. I'll likely try buy a flat lid for my keggle that i could cut in half and solder some stainless hinges in order to top mount this, and still be able to open (part of) the lid for hop additions etc. unless anyone has a good line on a hinged stainless lid. time to start searching alibaba...
According to the company that sells this one 200gal/hr or 3.3 gal/min.What is the water flow rate through this?
According to the company that sells this one 200gal/hr or 3.3 gal/min.
http://www.innomax.com/index2.php?crn=193
I just reread my post and realized how stupid that is. Anyways....Carry on.The sprayer we are proposing uses <10 gal/hour. I think it would be tough to justify dumping 200 gallons of water over the course of the boil.
What nozzle did you use (6 or 9 gph @40 psi)? Do you know what your home water pressure is?
The key is the water exiting the drain is very hot, as in just below boiling. If it is too cold, the misting from the nozzle is either inefficient, in which case some of the steam will not get converted, or the flow is too high, which is just wasting extra water. I used the 9 gph but I think I am going to go back to the 6 as I think I get more efficient misting with the 6. My home water pressure is probably around 30 psi.
@Dockside_Brewing the pictures of your brewery are incredible, nice work! Unboxing the Nano from CO Brewing My 25 gal kettle has a lip around the outside of it. So the top of the hole will be down approximately 2" from the top of the kettle? Do you guys see any problems with that? I'm not worried about wort level during the boil, I do 10 gal batches. May have to have it closed off with a blank when I'm mashing a big beer, but that shouldn't be a problem.
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That's a big difference and explains the 13 gallons of waste water you had (although the steam should add to the volume too... so maybe 12.3 is spray and 0.7 is boil-off). 60 psi is nice. Higher pressure is better as you create finer particles to more efficiently convert the steam. I think you can try the 6, but I would wait on trying one smaller than that.
Thanks for the compliment.......I do not see a problem. I also do 10 gallon batches. I have a 1.5" tri blank cap in case I have to mash some massive beer. Once the basket is out I can connect the condenser for boil.
I read MOST of this thread so forgive me if i missed the answer to my question. Has it been determined that DMS not an issue?
I just put the pressure meter on my house....60 PSI. I am going to order the 6.32 and 3.16 to experiment with. I wish they had a spec for other water pressures.
It’s not exact but you can approximate by using a flow coefficient (Cv). Cv=GPM/sqrt(dP). For the 6 gph version at 40 psi: 6 gph=0.1 gpm, 40 psi is the pressure drop at that flow since it discharges at atmospheric pressure. So Cv=0.1/sqrt(40)—>Cv=.0158. Then if you apply your house pressure to that nozzle: GPM=Cv*sqrt(dP)=0.0158*sqrt(60)=0.1225gpm=7.35 gph.
Looking forward to the results of the experiments. This is really cool!
I don’t know if that will work. Probably would if you seal the kettle lid. Steam is hot and wants to rise. The sprayer does not create much of a Venturi effect and that is not the goal. The vacuum is theoretically created by the steam getting cooled and volumetrically shrinking. So, conceptually speaking, it could work as long as there is motivation for the steam to get to the sprayer location.
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