Thursday, March 11, 2021

SUGAR INDUSTRIES THUMB RULES

                                       Juice Extraction System 
 1.Milling Tandem in milling sugar industry : The specific total mill power = 70 to 164 kW/Ton fiber per hour . (Avg – 104)
 
 2. Milling Tandem in Diffuser sugar industry : The specific total mill power = 38.3 to 110 kW/Ton fiber hour . (Avg – 60.3)

 3. Diffusers : The specific screen area = 6.6to 14.9 m2/Ton fiber per hour. (Avg – 10.7 ).

                                 Clarification

1.Juice Heaters : Total heating surface  area = 4.29 to 13.1 m2/TCH (Avg – 8.0).

2. Every 10oC juice temperature rising required steam = 1.8 % on cane.

3. Steam required for Juice heating = 12 to 15% on cane. ( Vary according to waste heat recovery from condensate or pans vapour or last effect vapour).

4. Head loss in tubular juice heater = 12 to 16mwc  & in plate type heater (PHE) = 10 to 12mwc.

5. Trayless Clarifier : Total volumetric capacity = 0.75 to  1.73 m3/TCH (Avg – 1.14).

6. Trayless Clarifier : Total cross sectional area = 0.2 to 0.22 m2 /TCH

7. Trayless Clarifier : Tray area = 0.22 to 0.33 m2/TCH.

8. Tray Type Clarifier : Total volumetric capacity = 2 to 3 m3/TCH (Avg – 2.5).

9. Tray Type Clarifier : Tray area =1.6 to 1.7 m2/TCH.

10. Tray Type Clarifier : Total cross sectional area = 0.38 to 0.42 m2 /TCH

11. Rotary Vacuum Filter : Total effective area = 0.6 to 0.7 m2/TCH.

12. Bagacillo requirement for vacuum filter = 7 to 8 kg per TCH

13. BagacilloQty available for 8mesh = 60 to 75 kg of bagacillo /m2/hr.

14. Air requirement for bagacillo conveying = 6.25 M3 of air will be required per kg of bagacillo

15. Legment : Dead end Juice heater  = 12mm, Dynamic = 15mm, Vapour line juice heater = 15mm.

16. Sulphitor or Defecator working volume in M3 = TCH x (0.14 to 0.16) (Avg – 0.15).

17. Air requirement of sulphur bunner in M3 = 8 t0 9 times of sulphur wt. in kgs.

18. Syrup Sulphitor : Working volume of syrup sulphitor in HL  = (0.02 x TCD)


                                   Crystalization


1.Vacuum pans : Total capacity  = 1.25 to 1.90 m2/TCH (Avg – 1.52).

2. Steam required for m/c boiling in white sugar production = 17 to 23% on cane. ( Vary according to the inlet liquor brix, type of the pan, m/c boiling scheme).

3. Steam required for m/c boiling in Refined sugar production = 22 to 28% on cane. ( Vary according to the inlet liquor brix, type of the pan, m/c boiling scheme).

4. Syrup supply tanks required in HL = TCH x (6 to 8).

5. Supply tanks all molasses required in HL = TCH x (10 to 12).

6. S/V ratio for batch pans = 6 to 7 (Avg 6.6)

7. S/V ratio for continuous pans = 10 to 11.

8. Batch pan vapour outlet line dia = 66.1 x SQRT(heating surface in m2).

9. Legment of  pans = 16mm.

10. Dow take area of batch pan = 40 % on total dia of the pan.

11. Vapour velocity in vapour space of pan = 25 m/sec.

12. Crystallizers : Total capacity = 4.5 to 6 m3/TCH (Avg – 5.25 ).

13. S/V ratio for B m/c cooling crystalizer = 1.2.

14. S/V ratio for C m/c cooling crystalizer = 2.0.

15. Mono Vertical Crystalizer ( MVC ) capacity for C m/c cooling in Ton = ( TCD /10)

16. Condenser water requirement in M3 = (40 to 55) x ton of vapour to be condense. ( For single entry = 40, Barometric = 47, Jet type = 55).

17.  Spray Pond area : 750 kg/hr of warm water requires 1 m² of area of spray pond ( Suppose spray pump capacity 2000m3/hr require spray area = 2000/0.75 = 2666 m² )

18. Horizontal cross-section of the body of the condenser = 0.16m2/ ton of vapour to be condensed per hour.

19. Colour transfer from massecuite to sugar :(IU in G-10 method)

For 1st m/c in Sulphitation plant 1 to 1.5% ( ex: m/c colour 6000 then sugar colour 60 to 90 IU)

Raw and refined sugar from its  massecuite – 4 to 6% ( ex: m/c colour 14000 then sugar colour 560 to 840IU)


                                    Centrifuging


1. Each Magma and seed pumps capacity required = (TCD x 0.008 ) T/hr.

2. B and C Sugar Melter capacity required (working volume) = (TCD x 0.004) M3

3. Thickness : 18g = 1.22mm , 16g = 1.625, 14g = 1.8mm.

These all thumb rules gives only approximate values for sugar industry equipment sizing.


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