Hello all, I have a interesting question for you.
I want to do some geothermal fermentation cooling my 3, 2bbl fermentors.
I want to put a 1/3hp sump pump in my brewery to push water out of a RubberMade bucket thru a 1/2in garden hose, down a 25ft drop to some marsh area about 50ft away, here it hooks up to a 1/2in copper coil buried 2ft below grade, then come back out of the marsh area thru a 1/2in garden hose where it goes back up the 25ft, in to some SS coils in my fermentors then dump back in to the RubberMade bucket. And then repeat…….
Total run will be about 125ft, does dropping 25ft then coming back the same 25 equal 0ft of head height. But there is friction loss that needs to be accounted for..
All this would be hooked up to a temp control. And only turn on when the fermentation get to warm….
So my question is - how much friction loss will I have? And will it work?
The pump I am looking at is
40gal a min at 0 head height,
and
2gal a min at 20ft head height.
Thanks
ColeR-
I want to do some geothermal fermentation cooling my 3, 2bbl fermentors.
I want to put a 1/3hp sump pump in my brewery to push water out of a RubberMade bucket thru a 1/2in garden hose, down a 25ft drop to some marsh area about 50ft away, here it hooks up to a 1/2in copper coil buried 2ft below grade, then come back out of the marsh area thru a 1/2in garden hose where it goes back up the 25ft, in to some SS coils in my fermentors then dump back in to the RubberMade bucket. And then repeat…….
Total run will be about 125ft, does dropping 25ft then coming back the same 25 equal 0ft of head height. But there is friction loss that needs to be accounted for..
All this would be hooked up to a temp control. And only turn on when the fermentation get to warm….
So my question is - how much friction loss will I have? And will it work?
The pump I am looking at is
40gal a min at 0 head height,
and
2gal a min at 20ft head height.
Thanks
ColeR-