immersion heater for brewery

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Remember all of the stuff that applies to all water immersion heaters, plus the key consideration for breweries is ease of cleaning.

Our existing ranges of immersion heater had limitations when used in brewery applications.

The II Range has many benefits, including bespoke screwplug size, immersed length, double stat pockets, etc, all with a 2 week leadtime, BUT as you can see from the images (particularly the 5th) our aim of maximising the length of 8mm diameter element, hence double looping rather than merely U bending, leads to a fair old ‘clump’ of elements.
Now, we are fully aware that all of you happy brewers are only boiling clean water (ha, ha) and are fastidious in cleaning thoroughly with a jet wash between every brew (chuckle, chuckle), but still, this ‘clump’ led to build up of ‘mystery stuff’ over time, leading to hot spots, element splitting and heater death.

So, in conjunction with one of our Italian suppliers, we designed the BI Range. These are a 10mm, U bent element, which has masses of gap between the elements (see pictures 2, 4 & 6) to enable efficient jet washing of the element to clean off any deposits. We will never be able to deviate from the specs on the website, as we have to buy in bulk with horrible lead times. But thankfully, we seem to have pitched the immersed lengths just right, and the watts density at around the 60w/in² mark, seems to be just right.

Even with the antique gear that some of you chaps are recycling for 21st century brewing, no one has needed any screwplug size other than 2.25″, tho I suppose we could throw on an adaptor to make them 2.5″ if needed.

So if you fancy buying an immersion heater that was actually designed for brewers, give me a call, on 07897 246 779. Feedback from new and existing customers is greatly appreciated and collated at Trustpilot, G##gle & FB.

Informational content provided by Jamie at ImmersionHeaters.uk.

In addition to all the requirements for water immersion heaters, for oil heaters our target is to get the watts density down, requiring more element or less power, that is the compromise facing the customer, who is always right, even when they are wrong!

For HEAVY INDUSTRIAL OILS we are aiming for <=12w/in².

For LIGHT COOKING OILS we are good with up to 25w/in².

If we stray above this, the sheathe temperature is too high, the oil caremelizes onto the elements, thus preventing dissipation of the heat, so it gets hotter & more stuff sticks, until something goes BANG!

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The OIL Range has many benefits, including bespoke screwplug size, immersed length, double stat pockets, etc, all with a 2 week leadtime. The 8mm elements can be double looped to fill your maximum available immersed length with a large overall length of element.

On 2″BSP & above screwplugs, the elements drop from the screwplug to your maximum available immersed length, before looping back up to within a few inches of the screwplug (taking care not to stray into the cold section), before dropping back to full immersed length, then returning back up to the screwplug. This allows us to fit nearly twice the length of element possible in a plain U bent element. For example, in 24″ of maximum immersed length, we could use an 84″ element double looped. Thus, nearly halving the resultant watt density.

If you are in the privilidged position of having a very large tank with a massive space available for immersed length, you may choose not to double loop, but to have plain U bent elements over a meter in length.

But for most folks, size is important! And this is where compromise is required to achieve the target watt densities shown above.

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