The wort boiling techniques and energy requirements: A Review (2021)
Abstract:
For several decades, the developers of equipment and technologies intended for wort boiling have declared for commercial and technical reasons any kind of performance of their systems in order to interest the breweries. For most of them, there was not enough information in literature to verify their claim. Thus, the aim of this paper was to conduct a review of some of these technologies and estimate the specific energy requirements during wort boiling. The comparison between theoretical calculation results obtained and some manufacturer data for their wort boiling equipment has revealed a slight difference. Thus, at the end of this work, and under equal conditions (without taking into account the recovery of energy), Ecostripper Meura system could be considered to be the most economical in terms of energy requirements and considering only usual boiling equipment. More generally, the theory of the abolition of wort boiling could be considered to be the most economical and with some adjustments should be taken into account by manufacturers and brewers.
