B problem statement the unreliability of the manual evaporation process control in sugar refining needless and surplus energy consumed by the process is leading to loss of money maintenance costs. Yields the yield of gur from sugar cane depends mostly on the quality of the cane and the efficiency of the extraction of juice.

Sugar Production Process Instrumentation Endress Hauser

Evaporation stage emerged as the key process of the global mass and energy balances colombo et al 1999.

Evaporation process in sugar industry. In the sugar industry vacuum evaporation is used in the crystallization of sucrose solutions. A 4 stage pressured evaporation in the sugar beet industry b 4 stage vacuum evaporation in the sugar cane industry. As such the economy of sugar manufacturing depends strongly on the evaporation process because of the.

The basic principle is that each ton of steam entering the first body of a. The milk of lime calcium hydroxide or ca oh 2 is metered into the juice to hold the required ratio and the limed juice enters a gravitational settling tank. The table below gives some extreme values.

Evaporation in the sugar industry. Sugar evaporators by john ziegler technical consultant process control multiple effect evaporation has been used in the sugar industry for many years to economically increase the concentration of 12 15 thin juice to thick juice syrup of 60 65 sugar. The main function of evaporator is to raise the concentration brix of sugar cane juice from a nominal value of say 15 wt to syrup with the brix of 72 wt.

It was developed by the large scale industry to improve efficiency but some small scale vp factories are in operation especially in india. How cane sugar is made evaporation the mixed juice from extraction is preheated prior to liming so that the clarification is optimal. Sugar evaporation process figure 2.

Traditionally this process was performed in batch mode but nowadays continuous vacuum pans are available. Evaporation in the sugar industry chandrima shrivastava 13fet1001. Evaporate the sugar cane juice.

The evaporation process 2. Water has to be evaporated from juice to allow its crystallization in the next stage will occur only if water content is low brix 70 multiple effect evaporator commonly 4 or 5 effects forward feed falling film evaporator most.