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Immersion Chiller

Immersion chiller is used for cutting oil, power pack oil & die water cooling. It increases the accuracy of the tool and extends the life. No impurities or metal clog interferes with the cooling and it is very easy to clean the coil

 

A chiller is a machine that removes heat from a liquid via a vapor-compression or absorption refrigeration cycle. This liquid can then be circulated through a heat exchanger to cool air or equipment as required. As a necessary byproduct, refrigeration creates waste heat that must be exhausted to ambient or, for greater efficiency, recovered for heating purposes. Concerns in design and selection of chillers include performance, efficiency, maintenance, and product life cycle environmental impact.

 

Immersion chillers are made from coiled copper tubing and sit inside your boil kettle. Wort is cooled by running cold water through the coils. Immersion chillers are very easy to use and keep clean, and they can be used in any brew kettle with or without a spigot.
Immersion chillers work by circulating a cooling fluid (usually tap water from a garden hose or faucet) through a copper/stainless steel coil that is placed directly in the hot wort. As the cooling fluid runs through the coil it absorbs and carries away heat until the wort has cooled to the desired temperature.

Immersion Chillers:

A step up from an ice-water bath, this chiller type is a simple coil of copper tubing, which is immersed in the wort at the end of the boil. Cool water is then run through the coil, drawing heat from the wort as it passes from one end of the coil to the other. While effective in small batches, inconsistent thermal gradients cause unequal cooling throughout the wort volume, which leads to an uneven and sometimes incomplete cold break.  In addition, since immersion chillers are less efficient than counterflow chillers, they require much greater total lengths.  Lastly, immersion wort chillers are less versatile, so moving up in batch size ultimately means purchasing a larger chiller.

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