Wort cooler for brewery wort treatment
Efficiently transition your brewing process from hot to cold phases with precise temperature control, ensuring your wort achieves the ideal pitching temperature while maximizing energy recovery and reducing brewing water consumption.
Cools Wort to Pitching Temperature
The Wort Cooler from GEA is engineered for efficient temperature control in breweries, facilitating the production of craft beers like lagers, ales, and stouts. Utilizing a plate and frame heat exchanger, it achieves precise cooling by transferring thermal energy from hot wort to a pre-cooled brewing medium. Ideal for continuous and automatic operations, this system supports versatile cooling agents including chilled water, brines, or direct refrigerant evaporation. Its design ensures integration into existing production lines, enhancing operational efficiency while maintaining energy conservation through a single or two-stage process. Built with robust material options, it offers longevity and hygiene, crucial for consistent brewing quality. Optional configurations and engineering support are available to meet specific brewery requirements.
Benefits
- Ensures optimal fermentation by maintaining precise pitching temperatures.
- Increases energy efficiency with integrated heat recovery systems.
- Minimizes operational costs with continuous and automatic functionality.
- Enhances production flexibility to accommodate various beer styles.
- Reduces environmental impact through optimized coolant utilization.
- Applications
- Beverage,Brewing,Beer
- End products
- Craft beer,Pilsner,Ipa,Lager,Stout,Wheat beer,Ale,Porter
- Steps before
- Separation of hot trub,Pre-cooling brewing water
- Steps after
- Pitching,Fermentation
- Input ingredients
- hot wort,pre-cooled brewing water,cooling brine,alcohol-water mixture,refrigerant
- Output ingredients
- cooled wort,brewing water,preheated brewing water
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Cooling method
- Single-stage / Two-stage
- Cooling medium
- Brewing water / Cooling brine / Alcohol-water mixture / Refrigerant
- Automation
- Fully automatic
- Heat transfer method
- Plate and frame heat exchanger
- Evaporation type
- Direct evaporation
- Pre-cooling solution
- Continuous / By low electricity tariffs
- Pitching temperature
- Achieved in one pass / Two-stage
- Recycling method
- Heat used returned to brewing process
- Energy management
- Two-stage cooling for energy and water surplus management
- Storage system
- Water storage system for direct evaporation
- Cooling process
- Single-stage
- Heat transfer method
- Plate and frame heat exchanger
- Automation level
- Fully automated
- Changeover time
- Continuous
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Energy management
- Energy return to brewing process
- Water management
- Pre-cooled brewing water
- Cooling media options
- Chilled water,brines,alcohol-water mixtures
- Waste management
- Manage energy and water surplus
- Pre-cooling method
- Continuous or at low tariffs
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Cooling system type
- Single-stage,Two-stage
- Footprint
- Compact for brewery integration
- Wort cooler type
- Plate and frame heat exchanger
- Evaporator type
- Semi or fully welded plate and frame
- Integration type
- Inline process
- Automation level
- Fully automatic
- Control panel type
- PLC-controlled
- Integration possibilities
- SCADA integration
- Cooling medium options
- Chilled water / cooling brines / alcohol-water mixture
- Wort cooling method
- Single-stage / two-stage cooling
- Evaporator type
- Semi or fully welded plate and frame