MET Senior Project: Instant Hot Water Heater

One of the first steps to the beer brewing process is to heat water to a specific temperature then that water is mixed with the malt. This first step is to be made to be more compact and quicker than the current method with a device in heating the water to a specific temperature. The flow must be at a temperature between 170⁰F and 180⁰F. The minimum flow rate should be half a gallon per minute while the maximum flow rate should be three gallons per minute. The device will also need to mount to a collapsible beer rack. The device will be primarily compromised of two steel square tubes welded forming an L shape, a burner, coiled copper pipe and a cover for the coils that will be mounted to the L shape welded steel square tubes. Three different sizes of copper pipe, quarter, three-eighth and half inch, will be analyzed to determine the most efficient way of heating the water. Through several calculations the three-eighth inch copper pipe was selected for the coil. Upon testing the device the flow rate was able to be dialed down between one half and three gallons per minute while staying in between the desired temperature range of 170⁰F and 180⁰F.