Abstract

CORRALES-SUAREZ, Jorge Michel et al. Sugarcane Tandem Mills Operation at Two Hydraulic Pressure Levels. Ing. invest. y tecnol. [online]. 2015, vol.16, n.1, pp.123-130. ISSN 2594-0732.

Among the areas with more energy consumption in a sugar factory is the tandem of mills. The applied hydraulic pressure on the superior mace is one of the variables that have influence on this energy consumption. Hydraulic pressures were decreased in a value that did not affect the extraction process efficiency to determine the possibilities of decreasing this energy consumption. The research was carried out in two sugar cane tandems of six mills. The pressures were only varied in the extraction mills in humid according to a statistical design of experiments in random blocks. The results were analyzed by means of the analysis of variance of double classification. The independent variables were the hydraulic pressures in the intermediate mills while the dependent variables were the % pol and % humidity of the final bagasse. The hydraulic pressures of the intermediate mills were reduced 3.45 MPa in the Tandem 1 and 2.07 MPa in the Tandem 2. It was demonstrated that under the conditions of the experiment, the employment of working hydraulic pressures smaller than the usually established ones for each tandem did not affect the extraction process of the sugar cane sucrose significantly, but decreased 11.75% the power demand on tandem 1 and 8.17% on tandem 2.

Keywords : hydraulic pressure; sugar-cane mills; energy saving; tandem; pol; humidity.

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