{"title":"Real-time data driven maximisation of carbonatation filter bank throughput","authors":"S. O’Kennedy, L. Bertossi, Shane Smith","doi":"10.36961/si29708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si29708","url":null,"abstract":"Volumetric throughput at the carbonatation filters at Malalane white sugar refinery was identified as a bottleneck. Scheduling filter cleaning was found to be one of the major concerns. The maximisation of the throughput via scheduling was approached by data integration and modelling. Linear regressions of the process parameters were implemented in volume space, which allows for the prediction of the remaining run duration of each filter. These predictions are continually used as an input to an algorithm that creates a schedule. The calculations are conducted in the cloud on real-time data and the predictions reported to a web-based user interface for the plant operator to use.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89914277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of polysaccharides in sugar beet processing","authors":"J. De Bruijn","doi":"10.36961/si29575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si29575","url":null,"abstract":"The processing of sugar beet, in particularly the purification of the extracted raw juice, can be significantly hindered by the presence of polysaccharides like pectin and dextran in the extracted juice. The origin of these polysaccharides in beet processing, as well as how their presence in the raw juice affects processing will be explained. Preventive and process control measures can be applied in order to largely limit the risk that the content of these polysaccharides gets at a level where they adversely affect beet processing.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74638216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction of the pre-evaporator in the existing scheme of the evaporator station with co-current juice flow without installing a new apparatus","authors":"P. Lenard","doi":"10.36961/si29574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si29574","url":null,"abstract":"A pre-evaporator is installed in an existing evaporator station with co-current juice flow without adding a new evaporator vessel. The mass and heat balances are compared for both cases. The analysis shows that with such a change the parameters (temperature, flow rate) of the bleed vapors of the 3rd, 4th and 5th effects will result in the need to enlarge the heating surface of several juice heaters. It will also be necessary to increase the vapor parameters of the effect supplying the evaporating crystallizers either by increasing the pressure of the exhaust steam supplying 1st effect or by relieving pre-evaporator through switching the supply of the juice heater from this effect to bleed vapors of another effect.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78806239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attributes of an excellent cane sugar factory","authors":"P. Rein","doi":"10.36961/si29439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si29439","url":null,"abstract":"Exposure to sugar cane operations around the world has led to conclusions about what distinguishes an excellent operation from an average or mediocre one. This article evaluates the hallmarks of a mill that lead to efficient performance, from cane harvesting through the individual unit operations to the production of sugar, ethanol and energy. The process of cane harvesting and transport impacts the juice purity, which has a major impact on sugar recovery. Conditions in processing affect losses and color formation and the aim is to minimize temperatures and residence times in the process steps, while also minimizing the opportunities for any micro-biological losses. High massecuite exhaustions in the pan house are vital in this respect and affect steam requirements due to lower recycling in the pan house. The requirements for maximum export power include reducing process steam usage and low processing energy requirements.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81905255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Process improvements of a cane sugar plant","authors":"M. Narendranath","doi":"10.36961/si29438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si29438","url":null,"abstract":"The sugar industry is one of the world’s major agro-based industries that provide employment to skilled and semi-skilled workers mostly from rural areas. The sugar industry plays a very important role in the country’s economy. Though this industry contributes a lot to the socioeconomic development of the Indian nation, the sugar producers are facing challenges such as a low sugarcane yield per hectare, the high cost of production due to a short crushing season, the small and uneconomic size of mills, a low sugar recovery and old technology. For sustainability, improvements are required in sugar processing to produce the best quality sugar with minimal sugar losses. This paper describes improvements in sugar processing adopted at The Andhra Sugars Ltd., India.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77011266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the solubility of sucrose in technical solutions – molasses revisited","authors":"Jörg Tuchert, S. Frenzel, E. Flöter","doi":"10.36961/si29360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si29360","url":null,"abstract":"This manuscript covers two aspects of the subject area described in the title. In order to improve the understanding and control of sucrose solubility in molasses it is believed that it is necessary to firstly gather experimentally detailed and consistent solubility and composition data. Secondly, the mathematical description of sucrose solubilities in molasses should be reconsidered. In the contribution data on 49 different molasses are described. The data show significant variation in both the sucrose solubility and the composition of the nonsucrose components. Current models to describe the solubility are discussed in light of thermodynamical considerations and their success in representing the data gathered.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76051410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CO2-neutral sugar factory, in affordable steps","authors":"K. G. Larsen, A. Jensen","doi":"10.36961/si29359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si29359","url":null,"abstract":"The first step for a sugar factory to become CO2 neutral is to replace the existing drum drier with a steam drier. The cost of this is approx. €250 per ton of CO2 reduction per year. In this first step, the CO2 emissions of the factory are reduced by approx. 33% The second step is to burn the steam-dried sugar beet pulp in the boiler, and the factory will be CO2 neutral, except for the lime kiln. There will be some excess sugar beet pulp, depending on the efficiency of the sugar factory.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81215466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Significant energy savings in the beet sugar industry to reach the decarbonization goals","authors":"S. Schellen, Vincent Couplet","doi":"10.36961/si29263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si29263","url":null,"abstract":"Biomass-based energy (solid fuel or biogas) and green electricity take a growing share in today’s low-carbon/carbon-free energy sources. Contrary to industries with high-temperature energy consumption (e.g. steel or cement industries), the sugar industry uses relatively low-temperature energy (except for milk of lime production). To reach low-carbon/carbon-free reduction, the sugar industry will have to re-design its complete energetic scheme. The panorama of solutions answering the aforementioned questions are reviewed. Among these solutions, the optimization of the process by using existing well-known technologies is the 1st option: mechanical vapour re-compressors (MVR), heat pump, cogeneration technologies, by-product anaerobic digestion, etc.\u0000\u0000Combining these solutions will support the sugar industry to decrease significantly its specific energy consumption. As a reference, today’s sugar factories have a specific consumption between 900 to 1200 kWh of primary energy per tonne of sugar. A target for the future is to decrease the specific primary energy consumption to 620 kWh per tonne of sugar (without pulp drying). This new benchmark could be even improved in the case of using low-carbon electricity imported from the grid. How far could one go into the decarbonization of beets sugar factories? Is the objective of having net-zero emissions for sugar production realistic?","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85853596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nordzucker plans for fossil-free sugar production","authors":"Sven Buhrmann","doi":"10.36961/si29265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si29265","url":null,"abstract":"Nordzucker has created a roadmap towards fossil free sugar production under the name GoGreen. The objective and tasks are presented like e.g. CO2 reduction and shifting passive CO2 costs into active investments. GoGreen also encompasses the organizational set up and the anchoring of the goals in the organization and the management of conflicts that might follow. The existing measures are currently not sufficient to fully achieve the reduction targets set by Nordzucker based on the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi)","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87595184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fructan (Levan) is a more pervasive polysaccharide in the sugar industry than previously thought","authors":"G. Eggleston, A. Triplett, P. Gaston, D. Stewart","doi":"10.36961/si29198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si29198","url":null,"abstract":"Fructan (levan) is a fructose polysaccharide connected by b2→6 glycosidic linkages but, compared to dextran, the amounts of fructan in factory products are much less known. \u0000By using a new enzymatic (research) method that incorporates newly available recombinant enzymes, which comes in kit form from Megazyme®, considerable amounts of fructan (>9000 mg/kg) were consistently found in final (C) molasses from Louisiana cane sugar factories. Results were verified by breaking down the fructan with inulinase and measuring resultant products with ion chromatography. Fructan was observed to be strongly related to the recovery of sucrose in upstream and downstream factory products. Results also have, at least to a partial extent, explained why total polysaccharides are often much greater than haze dextran values in Louisiana. \u0000A major source of fructan is the microbial deterioration of sugarcane either outside or inside the factory or both. Identification of the microorganisms causing the formation of fructan is urgently needed.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73712013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}