Louis Francois Marie1,*, Sunkara Prudhvi Raj2, Policherla Venkata Sai3, Tara MacLeod1, Morapakala Srinivas2, K. Srinivas Reddy3, Tadhg Seán O’Donovan4
Energy Engineering, Vol.117, No.5, pp. 323-342, 2020, DOI:10.32604/EE.2020.011035
Abstract Non-centrifugal cane sugar (NCS), known as Jaggery, is a form of unre-
fined sugar which contains molasses. The integration of renewable energy
resources in the production of NCS, have been analysed. The work investigates
the energy requirements of a system incorporating a freeze-concentrator and a
solar thermal heater to reduce the reliance on the combustion of bagasse or other
fuels in a Jaggery production process. Depending on the extent to which freeze concentration can be incorporated into the process, results show that the minimum theoretical energy required to produce Jaggery can be reduced by 91.30% overall.
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