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The New Generation SRI juice clarifier is an outstanding success story, capable of bringing major benefits to clients in the sugarcane processing industry.
The clarifier, designed using CFD techniques, produces major savings benefits by reducing:
- Inversion and cake losses;
- Chemical usage;
- Maintenance costs; and
- Labour costs.
Benefits compared with standard multitray clarifiers:
- Reduced capital and operating costs;
- Higher throughputs and superior standards of performance;
- Improvement in sugar quality;
- Higher mud densities;
- Minimum bagacillo carryover;
- Minimal pH drops;
- Low lime usage; and
- Low flocculant usage.
Each clarifier is tailored to suit the client’s needs and we provide a commissioning service and after-sales support.
Genuine SRI Clarification technology is only available from SRI.
SRI can design for new clarifiers or upgrades for existing SRT/multitray units. Our standard design package includes:
- Flash tank design;
- pH control system design;
- Flocculant preparation and addition system design;
- Piping and instrumentation diagrams and specifications; and
- Control system specifications.
Design Features
- Short residence time;
- New simplified juice entry and removal;
- Simplified mud level control and withdrawal;
- Designed using CFD modelling;
- Reduced floor space;
- Simple control;
- Applies to new clarifier installations or conversion of existing SRI, SRT or multi-tray clarifiers;
- Lower construction operation & maintenance costs;
- Quick liquidation; and
- Simple to operate.
Return on Investment
Trials on recent installations have shown the following:
- Reduction in inversion losses, US$ 360,000 / yr (2M tonnes cane, 200,000 tonnes sugar);
- Reduction in cake losses, US$ 36,000 / yr; and
Factory Clarification Requirements
- Up to 1000 t/h factory, requires one SRI new generation clarifier.
- Over 1000 t/h factory, requires two SRI new generation clarifiers.