Owning and operating a winery is a tricky business. You have to get a wine just right before you can bottle it. While the grape juice sits fermenting in giant vats, you have to add various (safe and edible) chemicals to the juice to get it to turn into a proper wine. If you do not get the chemicals just right, you end up with an entire wasted vat of messed up grape juice. While most of the process is an art form that takes time and practice, you can reduce mistakes via chemical metering pumps. Here are some benefits to adding these pumps to your winery and wine-making process.

Perfectly-Metered Amounts

When you need to add a preservative to the wine, it is a guessing game. How much actual wine is in the vat? What do you think is the total volume to which you must add the correct volume of a preservative?

A chemical metering pump that is connected to both the wine vat and preservative can meter out the amount you think is right with absolute precision. If the wine needs a little more preservative, you can adjust the meter pump up. If it needs less preservative, you can adjust the meter pump down. Eventually, you will get it exactly right, and the meter pump takes over and automatically delivers the perfect amount of preservative every time.

Exit Valves

If you wanted to, you could drain a bit of the chemical or the wine off to test it for flavor, acidity, etc. This is accomplished through an exit valve located part of the way between the metering pump and the wine vat. The exit valve also doubles as a means of preventing too much of a food chemical from reaching the wine vat in an emergency situation. While emergencies in a winery are rare, the vintner does his/her best to protect and preserve wine as it is made, and that includes shutting down or draining food chemical vats.

Keeping Records of Metered Food Chemicals

Finally, knowing exactly how much of which food chemicals are used is part of the government regulation process. Opening and operating a winery means that you abide by the same regulations as a brewery or any other consumable product factory. If you were inspected by the state health inspector, you would have to provide accurate records of the preservatives and other food chemicals you use to produce your wine. A chemical metering pump effectively provides you with that data.

For more information about chemical metering pumps, contact companies like Procom.