Updated 11 June 2026 · ASTM C680 / ISO 12241 method
A walk through the hot side of a brewery — see where energy escapes and calculate the saving from removable insulation on the spot. Jump to: Brewhouse · Packaging Area · Boiler House · Remote Study. Looking for a specific site? Explore 2,700+ breweries worldwide on the interactive BreweryAtlas map.
Reference site: UK mid-size brewery, full-site Inzonex Modular Insulation — boiler house + brewhouse + packaging + process pipework. Natural gas at ≈ $58/MWh, 95% heat-loss reduction.
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The boiler house runs hottest and longest. Bare doors, valves and water-level columns here usually have the fastest payback in the whole plant.
Interactive boiler heat-explorer. See the Bosch steam boiler in 3D — bare vs insulated, front / side / isometric — and calculate the savings across all 17 fittings. Open the tool → See a real boiler-house result. A Cochran steam boiler insulated end-to-end — doors, economizer, valves — with the FLIR-verified surface drop 148.1 °C → 33.5 °C, and why bare doors finally get covered. View the result →Kettles and tuns hold large hot surfaces for hours each brew. Insulating heads and shells keeps wort temperature and cuts kettle energy.
Pasteurizers and washers carry hot water and steam through long machine runs. Hot zones and supply pipes leak heat into the hall.
Pick any hot surface, enter its size and temperature, and instantly see the energy, money and CO₂ that Inzonex modular insulation would save — with payback. ASTM C680 method, no sign-up. Not a brewery? Run the whole-plant industrial heat-loss & CO₂ study with an ESG/CBAM report.
Open the calculator →Want the maths? Every figure here comes from the same ASTM C680 / ISO 12241 model — read the full methodology and assumptions.
How it's calculated →A small-to-mid brewery loses tens of kilowatts continuously from bare kettles and tuns, the boiler door and valves, pasteuriser roofs and feed-water lines. On the canonical model used here (ISO 12241, convection + radiation, lightly-ventilated hall at 25 °C with 0.5 m/s air) a bare wort-kettle face loses ≈1,100 W/m² at 99 °C, and a Bosch steam boiler's bare fittings alone ≈25 kW. Removable insulation cuts each by ~90–95%.
Wort (brew) kettle ≈99 °C at the boil, mash tun ≈68 °C, lauter tun ≈77 °C at mash-out, whirlpool ≈92 °C, cereal/adjunct cooker ≈95 °C. The surface temperature drives the loss — the hotter the bare head, the more it radiates and convects into the hall.
The hottest, longest-running surfaces: the boiler door and steam-side fittings (≈180–300 °C), then the wort kettle and whirlpool, then pasteuriser roof and feed-water pumps. The boiler house usually shows the fastest payback.
Up to 96% heat-loss reduction, with the cover surface dropping to a touch-safe ≤45 °C. For a full brewery (brewhouse + packaging + boiler house) payback is typically around 13 months on the figures in this tool, and well under 2 years for most single items.
Yes — less radiant and convective heat enters the hall, so the ambient temperature falls. That improves working conditions and helps avoid overheating nearby electronics, sensors and control panels.
Yes. Inzonex modular covers unclip in minutes for CIP, inspection or valve access and refit exactly — no hard lagging to cut off and rebuild. Outer fabric is silicone (standard) or PTFE (chemical / caustic-resistant), in a range of colours.
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