Australian-based, family-owned company Teralba Industries has designed and manufactured a giant heat exchanger used for cooling crushed grapes in a California-based winery.
Teralba Industries designs and fabricates Dimplelfo heat exchangers used primarily in wineries for cooling crushed grapes (must) during vintage.
Dimplelfo must chillers are also produced in a wide variety of lengths and diameters to suit the varying range of wineries in terms of throughput and crushing capacity.
The most recent build to come out of its Sydney manufacturing plant is the largest Dimplelfo Teralba has made for grape must chilling and the company believes it is the largest capacity system in the world.
This colossal heat exchanger, consisting of 20 Dimplelfo modules each 12 metres long, can cool 150 tonnes/hr of crushed grapes from 35°C down to 10°c, in a single pass. When a reduced temperature drop was required, the Dimpleflo achieved 250 tonnes/hour.
