Sugar Production Process In The Production Of The Sugar Making Process

Chapter – 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Chapter Summary

This chapter starts with the scope of improvement in sugar manufacturing process. Section 1.2 presents the objective of proposed research work. The historical background of sugar and statistics of Indian sugar industry is explained in section 1.3 and the chemical composition of sugar cane is described in section 1.4. The overview of sugar making process is explained in section 1.5. In section 1.6 of this chapter important terms used in cane juice extraction process during sugar making process are discussed. Various expressions used for the calculation of sugar mill parameters are also expressed in this section. An introduction to soft computing and its various instruments are explained in section

production occurs in a particular season of year. India is the second largest producer of sugar in the world and Brazil produces sugar at lowest cost.

It is a challenge of producing sugar of good quality at lower cost which requires improvement in efficiency of sugar making process. Followings are the scopes of improvement of sugar making process:

1.2.1 Cane Feed Process - Proper feeding of cane avoids the jamming due to uneven feed rate. There is a scope of improvement to maintain continues and proper cane feeding to milling tandem. Proper and continues feeding of cane can be maintained by regulating the cane carrier speed according to the crushing rate and availability of cane on cane carrier. The improvement in cane feed process improves the mill efficiency by avoiding the mill breakdown and stoppage due to jamming or uneven crushing rate.

1.2.2 Imbibition control Process - Water imbibitions plays very important role in milling system. If we have sprayed excess quantity of water in prepared cane in the mill we will find excess water in cane juice and wet bagasse, if we have sprayed

After independence government put lot of efforts in the installation of new mills and as a result the Indian share in sugar production is gone up. Sugar factories are the part of organized sector of Indian sugar industry. Sugar industry has inculcated industrial growth in rural India and has been instrumental in employment and income. The area under sugarcane hovers around 5million hector which is around 3% of the gross cultivable area in the country (Jha 2012). The turnover of the sugarcane and sugar related economic activities are in the range of Rs. 800-850 billion per annum (Government of India 2013). Sugar industry in India has both organized and unorganized sugar producers. The organized sector is the sugar mills and the unorganized sugar producers produce mainly Gur and Khandsari. Approximately 40-50% of total sugarcane produced is diverted to these unorganized sector for the production of Gur, 40-45% is diverted to sugar mills for sugar production and 8-12% of cane is utilized for seed and chewing (Kulkarni 2003). Sugar industry plays an important role in industrial growth in rural India. Due to the establishment of sugar mills the employment and income generation has taken place in rural part of country. In India 60 million cane farmers and their dependents depend on the cane cultivation (Jha 2012). The Indian share in sugar production is gone up in past few decades and in the marketing year 2011-12