Immersion Wort Chiller Calculator

[Near-Beer-Engineer]

Hey Guys,

I'm a brand new member here but frequent lurker of posts. I'm a Chemical Process Engineering student in my final year of undergrad at Queen's U in Ontario, Canada, and homebrewing has been a passion of mine for just over a year. I have about 3 (extract) batches under my belt, and this website has been an amazing resource for me.

In an attempt to give back to the homebrewing community I've designed an immersion wort chiller "calculator" that attempts to predict how long it will take you to cool certain volumes of wort based on several parameters. I did some tests on my own system and came up with what seem to be fairly reasonable overall heat transfer coefficients for copper immersion chillers, and they are pre-loaded in the calculator. Check it out and let me know if it's helpful! I'm all ears for constructive criticism as well!

You can find it here (I couldn't attach it directly):

http://www.4shared.com/file/isqdv5CL/Immersion_Wort_Chiller_Calcula.html

Looking forward to contributing more,

Near-Beer-Engineer

 

[htc]

Pretty awesome calculator! Simple and detailed!

I've got some gadget pictures on my facebook page and wanted to geek out on the details and efficiency of my chiller. Please contribute more!

Thanks Near-Beer-Engineer

 

[Near-Beer-Engineer]

Pretty awesome calculator! Simple and detailed!

Glad you got some use out of it! I checked out your photos, looks like you've got some really cool chiller designs. I love to nerd out on this stuff too haha.

 

[GutsyBrewing]

Sounds interesting...anyway you can make this available on another hosting service? I got a bunch of annoying search engines and junk installed trying to download :/

 

[Near-Beer-Engineer]

Sounds interesting...anyway you can make this available on another hosting service? I got a bunch of annoying search engines and junk installed trying to download :/

Yikes really? I will try to reupload tonight on something more user friendly.

 

[Near-Beer-Engineer]

You should be able to download a copy safely now from this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ktvg0jz809n2stv/Immersion Wort Chiller Calculator.xlsx

No need to get dropbox first, just direct download.

Cheers!

 

[Bigdaddyale]

links no longer work.Is there an updated thread?

 

[balrog]

I googled and found another one on HBT thread here

download (they say they are bsmx files but just rename by erasing the .bsmx or whatnot)

 

[Near-Beer-Engineer]

links no longer work.Is there an updated thread?

Here's another link if you're still interested. I haven't figured out a way to make this permanently available yet.

https://we.tl/pBNF8k5dRd

 

[olie]

Expired. Any chance of you getting a website? Actually, PM me, maybe I can host it on my brewing site.

 

[STR87]

Where to find it, i really need it


Edit:
finally, found it here:
https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/forum/index.php?topic=7082.15

 

[Near-Beer-Engineer]

Where to find it, i really need it


Edit:
finally, found it here:
Any calculators for immersion chillers?

This is someone else's calculator. Sorry for the delay... I'll reupload mine now.

 

[Near-Beer-Engineer]

Sorry all, I went MIA for a little while there. Glad to see there has been some interest in this though.

Please try to download using this link: Immersion Wort Chiller Calculator.xlsx

Hope you enjoy!