Operations improvement of the recycling water-cooling systems of sugar mills

• Main Authors: Shcherbakov Vladimir Ivanovich, Polivanova Tat’yana Vladimirovna, Buromskiy Vladimir Vasil’evich
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU)
• Series: Vestnik MGSU
• Subjects: cooling water supply; cooling tower; guidelines; sugar mills; recycling water supply systems
• Online Access: http://vestnikmgsu.ru/files/archive/issues/2014/12/ru/18.pdf

Water management in sugar factories doesn’t have analogues in its complexity among food industry enterprises. Water intensity of sugar production is very high. Circulation water, condensed water, pulp press water and others are used in technological processes. Water plays the main role in physical, chemical, thermotechnical processes of beet processing and sugar production. As a consequence of accession of Russia to the WTO the technical requirements for production processes are changing. The enforcements of ecological services to balance scheme of water consumption and water disposal increased. The reduction of fresh water expenditure is one of the main tasks in economy of sugar industry. The substantial role in fresh water expenditure is played by efficiency of cooling and aeration processes of conditionally clean waters of the 1st category. The article contains an observation of the technologies of the available solutions and recommendations for improving and upgrading the existing recycling water-cooling systems of sugar mills. The authors present the block diagram of the water sector of a sugar mill and a method of calculating the optimal constructive and technological parameters of cooling devices. Water cooling towers enhanced design and upgrades are offered.