Water and Wastewater Management in a Sugar Process Production

Since cane consists of about 70-75% water, cane sugar mill processes more water than sugar. All the water entering a mill must also leave it in one form or another. The sugar industry is a major water user and wastewater producer. In this work are identify the structure of the main water and wastewater circuit in a sugar manufacturing process. It is analyzed using graphical techniques, and the structure of the main water and wastewater circuit can be optimized by the inspection of feasible options. By analyzing the combined effect of all the operations at given impurity contents in fresh water taken in and wastewater discharged, water p inch makes it possible to evaluate the water consumption at optimum utilization of circuit components. Both circuit structure, that is, set of connections between its components (considered as ‘sources’ and ‘sinks’), and water flows in these connections were optimized.