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CIP == Clean In Place.


What commercial breweries do - you can't be disassembling everything every brew, so things that aren't regularly disconnected get Cleaned In Place. Typically this refers to hard plumbing, and all steel vessels.


CIP usually uses caustic alkali or acid chemicals, pumped through the piping, into a spray ball at typically a high temperature and pressure, which sprays the cleaning fluid against all the surfaces of the vessel that liquid doesn't typically settle into. This dislodges anything, and kills anything that can't be dislodged. Then hot water is used to rinse. Sometimes steam is used in the process (steam in place).


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