‘Usage of automatic control system essential in sugar units’
Kanpur: “Judicious use of instrumentation and adoption of various automatic process control system is essential for attaining higher technical efficiency and productivity in the sugar units. There are progressive sugar factories who have adopted such techniques resulting in much higher efficiency than the conventional one’s and now can be example for others, said Director, National Sugar Industry, Narendra Mohan in an appeal to the Indian sugar industry.
Process parameters like flow, temperature, pH are required to be essentially controlled in a sugar factory to produce superior quality sugar with minimum sugar loss during processing. Institute has worked actively with the industry over the last few years as a result of which juice flow stabilization, automatic temperature & pH control, level control, automatic cane feed control and automatic controls for regulating sugar crystallization have been installed. With these, the sugar losses during processing have reduced by around 20-25% with significant sugar quality improvement. “Looking to the need of the sugar industry, we started a course on “Automation and Process Control” and with the growing adoption of automation, now the demand has also increased, said Director.
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