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I'm starting up a distillery in California where running condenser cooling water to waste is a non-starter.  Our still is going to be powered by a 5 MBH (15 hp) boiler.  I'm assuming, just for the sake of argument, that we're running 24/7 and that 50 % of this heat makes it to the condenser where it has to be removed.  Chillers that can remove 2.5 MBH are expensive and use a lot of electrical power.  So I'm wondering, can I use a radiator type heat exchange to dump most of that heat to atmosphere?  My condenser has two stages so I could run a water loop from the first stage to the radiator to get rid of most of the heat and then connect a chiller to the second stage to get the condensate as cold as I want to.  Presumably this would allow me to run a much smaller chiller.

Has anyone tired this?  Is it worthwhile?

Thanks in advance.

Good afternoon.  I am interested to learn more about your distillery.  Please send your sales brochure to zack.fresco@gmail.com

Thank you.