Optimizing steam utilization at a typical sugar factory
| MSI99P3261 | |
| Kong Win Chang, K. T. K. F. Lau Ah Wing, A. F. Gunness, D. Wong Sak Hoi, L. | |
| Optimizing steam utilization at a typical sugar factory | |
| periodical article | |
| 1999 | |
| Proc. int. Soc. Sug. Cane Technol. | |
| 23 (1): 270-279 | |
| En | |
| En | |
| Flow rate of steam produced at a cane sugar factory from two low pressure boilers of 16 bar each, and steam consumed by steam turbines driving the mills and by a quadruple effect evaporator were measured. The results obtained were used to explore the possible steam economy in three different scenarios: the present set-up, the electrification of the factory prime-movers with low pressure steam of 16 bar and a quintuple effect evaporator, and in the third scenario, a high pressure boiler of 80 bar, a condensing-extraction turbo-generator set and a sextuple effect evaporator. The consumption of live steam per tonne of cane for the three scenarios were found to be respectively 440 kg/t cane, 336 kg/t cane and 122kg/t cane for providing the power house needs and those of the exhaust steam were respectively 441 kg/t cane, 368 kg/t cane and 295 kg/t cane for the processing needs of the factory. | |
| SUGAR FACTORY CANESUGAR STEAM STEAM UTILIZATION | |
| MAURITIUS | |
| Cane sugar manufacture | |
| Energy | |
| 1999-11-05 | |
| En | |
| MSIRI | |
| LIST | |
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