We have actually invested in a larger walk in to store bulk quantities of ethanol at well below ambient temps. Unfortunately the readily available walk ins tend to max out around -20F and the ones that get down to -45F or more appear to be anywhere from $60-100k depending on size and cooling power.
I’m not going out of my way to throw Huber under the bus here but I feel like an update is probably in order and it doesn’t entirely paint Huber in a positive light. One of our 815’s that was working started throwing codes for a temperature sensor and a tech from Blackhawk Industrial came out and did some work to it. Less than a week later it refused to cool a single reactor to below -10C with no load. Needs to be sent back to Huber in NC.
Huber has a sales guy working with us to see if something else would work better for our application that we can trade our 815’s for/towards. Having retooled our production line and no longer using the Hubers to cool down larger quantities of alcohol, we’re just using the 2 functional 815’s to keep reactors cold and deferring the bulk cooling to a large walk in freezer. To maximize our production using existing equipment we need a single chiller to keep 2 reactors cold and I think that’s asking too much of a single 815 (we have 6 reactors we’d like to have running at all times to get the maximum production rate).
Still haven’t heard a peep about fixing our problems with the Spycontrol software and the Huber website still shows the exact same files as when I downloaded the buggy software months ago. For the forseeable future I will be doing production temperature logging with a different piece of hardware.
I think if Huber wants to get more units sold to our industry Huber really ought to sell something like the Unistats with more cooling power between -20C and -50C and no heating. And fix the datalogging problems.