Can you guys see any glaring omissions?

[Flyingcow]

Ok, so I put together a draft P&ID so I can have a rational equipment list. Can you guys see anything tragically missing?

It's a HERMS system, and the boil kettle has a whirlpool (hence all the routing to the pump). I think we're going to go with a DC pump and PWM it, unless I can find a reasonable 3 phase pump to run a VFD. We're starting the design kinda Cadillac then bringing it down to our budget, so things might get reduced a bit... hopefully not too much.

I think we'll have enough water pressure to come out of the heat exchanger and into the HLT (pre-heating cleaning water), but I'm not positive since this bugger is going to be kind of tall (gravity flow from HLT to MLT to Kettle)

 

[Hatchbrew]

It is beautiful!!

 

[kladue]

A suggestion would be to move valve 102B from wort circuit to the water to the HLT, reason is water volume used for cooling will probably exceed HLT capacity before all the wort is cooled and you need somewhere else for it to go. The line from valve 102B to boil will probably not be useful unless there is a significant elevation difference between MT and BK, you already have pumped circuit for wort transfer.

 

[Flyingcow]

A suggestion would be to move valve 102B from wort circuit to the water to the HLT, reason is water volume used for cooling will probably exceed HLT capacity before all the wort is cooled and you need somewhere else for it to go. The line from valve 102B to boil will probably not be useful unless there is a significant elevation difference between MT and BK, you already have pumped circuit for wort transfer.

That's what I needed!

The line from the HX to the HLT will likely be a loose hose going into the top of the kettle, so it can be removed when the HLT is full... (unless I re-plumb the outlet every time I want to fill). I might change my mind on that. The plan was to have enough head to gravity fill the BK, but that's completely unnecessary since I have the pumped line through the tangential inlet. I think you just saved us a valve!

It is beautiful!!

Thanks!