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Clarification performance in a sugar factory has received significant research attention in SRI's 56-year lifetime.
SRI has developed significant expertise and intellectual property to help clients improve sugar quality and enhance pan and fugal stage productivities.
Our capabilities include:
- Integrating the New Generation SRI Clarifier package into a new or existing factory;
- Providing technical and economic feasibility studies outlining options to pre-process streams for value-adding and by-product development;
- Designing plant for juice processing including lime saccharate preparation and pH control, juice heaters, flocculant systems and flash tanks; and
- Performing clarification audits to identify opportunities for improved clarification standards.
- Use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling to investigate flows in reaction tanks and flotation clarifiers;
- Application of both dissolved air and dispersed air for scum flotation; and
- Providing design specifications for a clarification process for raw and white sugar or melt liquor for refined sugar.
SRI expertise can assist clients with mud processing problems through:
- Investigation of options to recover sucrose and reduce the filter cake moisture;
- Design improvements to the rotary drum filter; and
- Value-adding opportunities using mud filter cake as an ingredient.
Our clarification and filtration expertise can also be applied to provide solutions to clients for:
- Removal of solids from boiler ash water before recycling;
- Waste water treatments to comply with statutory requirements and improved environmental performance; and
- Application of membrane filtration for improved factory performance, sugar quality and as a pre-treatment for value-adding processes.