Engineering Data

Extraction

• Cane preparation equipment sizing
• Installed specific power for milling tandems
• Throughput capacity of milling tandems
• Mill and trashplate settings
• Fibre fills in milling tandems
• Mill Pinions or Crown Wheels
• Mill bearings
• Sugar mill lubricants
• Bagasse calorific values
• The killer plate

Juice Treatment and Evaporation

• Limed juice flash tank and
• Juice heating equipment sizing
• Clarifier sizing
• Rotary vacuum filter sizing
• Robert evaporator design
• Specific evaporation rates
• Overall Heat Transfer Coefficients
• Norbert Rillieux's triple effect evaporator

Pan Boiling including Condensation

• Batch pan design
• Mechanical pan circulators
• Refinery batch pan steam demand
• Massecuite reheaters
• Vertical crystallisers
• Centrifugal machines
• Rain tray condenser
• Incondsible Gas Removal
• Spray ponds design notes

Process Engineering

• Sucrose losses
• High Test Molasses
• Sulphitation
• Distillery calculations

Project Engineering

• Capital cost estimation
• Project pre-feasibility
• Project feasibility
• Simplified Financial Calculations
• Measurement of insulation areas

General Engineering

• Equipment sizing rules of thumb
• Pumps - dynamic similarity laws
• Vertical Storage Tanks - design and specification
• Tube specifications for juice heaters, evaporators and pans
• Piping, including:
  • Pipe, valve and flange specifications
  • Pipe stress analysis
  • Fluid flow velocities
  • Cavitation and NPSH
  • Maximum Pipe Spans between supports
  • Pipe sizing and pressure drop calculations.
• Desuperheaters
• Motor power calculations
• 3CR12 in the sugar industry

Steam and Power

• Steam generation from bagasse
• Turbine steam consumption
• Steam traps
• Steam Accumulators