What types of chillers do you offer? (Andy)

Basically, what we have here for you is a good representation of our standard line of chiller offerings up to about two hundred horsepower air cooled. The first unit here is a five horsepower chiller. It would be a great chiller option for you if you’re a smaller, you know, brewpub style setup. It’s a single stage, which means it has a single compressor.

That’s a reciprocating compressor, and it has, you know, your process pump. It’s got a glycol reservoir that’s stainless steel, and it’s a complete package chiller. It’s quite nice, you know, really all you would really need to do is set this in place behind the cellar or up on the roof and, it’s plug and play. Single point power connection, right to the front there as are all our chillers and then single point glycol connections as well.

Right here, we have a seventy horsepower chiller from our Vertical Air series line. This is a two stage chiller. It has two semi hermetic reciprocating compressors and it differs a little bit from the smaller unit.

This compressor is a fully hermetic sealed compressor.

They are they’re great for what they are, and they have served so many, so many customers over the years very well. They’re very hardy compressors, and they’re awesome. We’ve had great luck with those compressors. We change though, when we get to a larger production scale scenario.

This chiller here is going to have two semi hermetic reciprocating compressors. There’s a lot of benefits to the two. We’ll jump into redundancy a little bit more in a bit, but, this is a two stage chiller with two compressors that can actually unload. So, you know, you’ve got some efficiency gains, not only in the fact that they’re staged in so if you don’t need to run both motors at once, only one will run, but in addition to that, these motors are actually going to kick out cylinders and makes them even more efficient. Up top, we changed from a horizontal discharge of air to a vertical discharge of air.

The condensers up top, more efficiencies packed into this guy: we’ve got, like this–I don’t want to shy away from the efficiencies of this unit for what it is. It is a very practical and efficient chiller. You know, you do have some redundancy in on the condenser fans, they will cycle on and off as needed. To the next level on this though there’s actually four fans on our seventy horsepower chiller and they will do the same. They’re also variable speed motors just like, you know, the unloading of our compressors. So this is a larger scale production brewery chiller that serves the needs of somebody who’s coming in with, like, you know, I would venture to say, like, thirty barrel brew house size and, you know, you’re going to jump right into some serious production. Or maybe it’s phase two of a planned expansion, you know. Maybe it’s year five and your brewery’s doing awesome and you can’t make enough beer. That’s your chiller.

This chiller here is the same line as our Danfoss line. So you can essentially, if you look at that unit, it’s got one compressor. This is pretty much the same thing, it’s just got two. So we gained the redundancy factor we just talked about, but you’ve got, you’ve got it in a smaller package chiller.

I sell more of this chiller than any other chillers, our most popular chiller, and it is awesome. And it it there’s a bunch of benefits to coming into this unit. If you’re smaller and you have some expansion plans, you’re going to you’re going to get a chiller that you can grow into and do it efficiently, you know. You’re not going to burn a bunch of energy, you know.

If you start off with a, you know, production that is low, you’re only going to run one of these compressors in any given, you know, at any given time. And if, you know, it’s summertime and you’ve stepped up production, brought in some more tanks, the additional circuit will kick on and cover your demand.

So it’s a great chiller package. They, you know, they will cycle on and off as needed. Both of both circuits will have equal run time over the life of the chiller and then, you know, redundancy is huge. If a circuit, in the unlikely event a circuit goes down, the other one’s automatically running, so you’re not dead in the water. And that’s huge in production. That is huge when you have beer in your tanks.

Contact Us