PROCESS INTEGRATION AND COGENHERATION ANALYSYS IN THE SUGAR AND ALCOHOL PROCESS PRODUCTION

Abstract

It was evaluated the possibility of integration of the processes of production of sugar and alcohol in a company that consists from a factory of sugar close to alcohol distillery. Integration tools such as pinch analysis were used for the study of the energy currents which conservative results. Taking like base the results obtained in each one of the analyses were carried out the calculations of steam consumption in the turbogenerators, exergetic efficiency and other, for a better knowledge of the operational state of the same ones, being these below the established technical norms, for what intended a change in the cogeneration system for a better use of the system obtaining higher values of yields and efficiencies that in the installed technology. Economic balances carried out in the cogeneration station obtained that support the possibility of the technology change, what would benefit to the processes of sugar and alcohol in the improvement of their productions, obtaining bigger earnings in both.