Hello, This is my first post, I'm hoping I am in the correct forum.
I'm researching HERMS and started thinking about time efficient heat exchange-- I'm trying to figure out how many feet of 1/2 inch copper/stainless steel tubing I would need to raise the temperature of 10 gallons of wort flowing through the tube while the tube is coiled and fully immersed in a tank of near boiling water. The wort in the tube starts at 150 degrees f and the water in the tank is 200 f. I would like to raise thetemperature in the wort to 160 in about 5 minutes. I assume I can get the wort to flow at least 2 gpm. any other thoughts would be helpful.
Thanks
Paul
I'm researching HERMS and started thinking about time efficient heat exchange-- I'm trying to figure out how many feet of 1/2 inch copper/stainless steel tubing I would need to raise the temperature of 10 gallons of wort flowing through the tube while the tube is coiled and fully immersed in a tank of near boiling water. The wort in the tube starts at 150 degrees f and the water in the tank is 200 f. I would like to raise thetemperature in the wort to 160 in about 5 minutes. I assume I can get the wort to flow at least 2 gpm. any other thoughts would be helpful.
Thanks
Paul