Cooler MLT on Single-Tier: How to Protect from Burners?

[breckenridge]

Hi folks,

After BIAB'ing for a year, I'm in the design phase of constructing a traditional 3-vessel home brewery. At least to start, I'll be doing batch sparge, with a rectangular cooler MLT (it's what I had around), a Blichmann burner, and a KAB4 (they're also what I have around).

I have a pump, and like the pros of a single-tier design, but am wondering about how to protect the cooler from heat from my propane burners. I'm planning to make 360 heat shields around both burners - will this be enough? Do I need to put walls up between the MLT and other elements? If not, how much buffer space should I leave? Is 6" enough? A foot?

Any advice - especially from those who've had direct experience with this type setup- is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Breck

 

[brewkinger]

I have a 3 tier system and I put a cookie sheet ($3.99 at Walmart) between my burner and Igloo cooler. I would assume that it would work the same on a single tier.