ASSESSMENT OF ADVANTAGES OF USING A DIFFUSION PULSATING APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF THE DIFFUSION SECTION OF A SUGAR FACTORY

The sugar industry in Russia plays a huge role in ensuring the country’s food security and is a strategic industry. Of the 90 sugar factories in Russia today, a third of the factories are closed due to unprofitability associated with the high cost of sugar production due to low feed capacity. The raw material for sugar production is sugar beet, mainly domestically produced. The locations of most sugar factories are small municipalities, for which they are the town-forming enterprises. For the revival of closed sugar factories, it is necessary to increase their capacity, which is difficult to do due to the fact that in the diffusion section of each sugar factory there is one large-sized imported diffusion apparatus of a mechanical type, which does not allow increasing capacity in any other way than purchasing a new, more high-performance expensive imported diffusion apparatus of a mechanical type. In the current conditions of uncertainty and disruption of trade relations with other countries, new suppliers of high-performance diffusion apparatus are needed in Russia itself, the apparatus of which would at least not be inferior to the Western apparatus. The Russian company Ingehim has developed a diffusion pulsating apparatus (DPA) without mechanical movable transporting devices, which reduces energy consumption, operating costs and lowers quality requirements for sugar beet chips. The test results obtained using an experimental unit showed a higher quality of the diffusion juice. The lightness of the juice was found to be much higher compared to juices produced in conventional diffusion apparatus, and the juice purity was found to be 5% higher at a comparable solids content, resulting in an additional amount of sugar produced per year, allowing for a faster return on investment.

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