Ethanol Dehydration at Usina da Pedra
Kampen, W.H. 1993. The world’s largest and Brazil’s first – vapor-phase molecular sieve was started up successfully in Brazil on August 29,1993 at the Usina de Pedra sugar mill. The unit will produce absolute ethanol for pharmaceutical and motor fuel applications. It has the design capacity of 60 million gallons per year of 199.60 proof…
Condition Monitoring at Bundaberg
Cullen, R.N., Kent, N.W., et.al. 1993. The purpose of condition monitoring is to reduce costs by implementing a predictive maintenance system. There are several systems currently in place at Bundaberg Sugar Company Limited to monitor plant condition and extend equipment life. A number of these are on-line, including Vibration Analysis,…
A Spin Through Centrifugal Country
Coleman, J.M. 1993. Today, there are two fundamental types of sugar centrifugals in use – the automatic batch and the continuous centrifugal. This article presents an overview of what is being supplied currently by centrifugal manufacturers, particularly recent innovations. A Spin Through Centrifugal Country. Sugar y Azucar, April 1993:22-…
The Use of Bactericide in Sugar and Alcohol Production System
Carvalho, L. 1994. With improvements in the chemical-physical process in the sugar and alcohol system, the undesirable microbiological processes caused by contaminants became evident. The following describes a microbiological survey in a sugar mill and alcohol distillery in Brazil and the results obtained with the…
Saccharose Inversion Control in Sugar Mills
Melo, D.T. 1994. The article describes procedures that can be used to measure sucrose losses due to enzymatic inversion. It also reviews a mill trial during which an organic sulfur microbicide was used to control the microorganisms that produce the enzyme invertase. The methods are easily implemented, involve little cost and…