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Energy Efficiency Improvement Approaches in Sugarcane Industry: A Case Study

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Sugarcane processing industry is believed to consume a high amount of energy through several production stages. Consequently, the cost of energy is considered an important item in total production costs that consuming a detectable part of the company's annual profits. Energy audit program (EAP) is considered an important pillar to mitigate the high cost production for improving the efficiency of industrial operating conditions. It improves the efficiency of the factory's components through three scenarios. The first is starting from classifying the utilities inputs and outputs to evaluate energy balance of each equipment. Results indicated that in the first scenario by using steam dairator, the fuel flow rate can be reduced by 189.49 m3/h which raise the energy efficiency by 6.32 %. In the second scenario, boiler blowdown heat exchanger only, flow rate of 166 m3/h of fuel can be saved with 5.52 % increasing in energy efficiency. In the third scenario, mixing between the two previous scenarios will increase the energy efficiency by 22.1 % via saving fuel reached about 664 m3/h. It was found that the suggestive solutions are significantly contributed remarkable improving in the company's energy efficiency. Consequently, they decrease energy cost items and increase the company's annual output profits.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2023.238634.8659

Keywords

Energy recovery, Efficiency Improvement, Fuel saving, Industrial Boiler

Authors

First Name

M.Hamdy

Last Name

El Awady

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Water Pollution Research Dept., Environment and Climate Change Research Institute, National Research Centre

Email

drhamdyelawady@gmail.com

City

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Orcid

0000-0003-1014-7260

First Name

Hamdy

Last Name

El Ghetany

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Solar Dept, NRC

Email

hamdy.elghetany@gmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0003-0081-2562

First Name

Karim

Last Name

Aboelghait

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Water Pollution Research Dept., NRC

Email

karimaboelghait@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-6273-4910

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Dahaba

MiddleName

Abdelalim

Affiliation

Water pollution research, environmental research institute, National research centre, dokki, giza

Email

aadahaba@gmail.com

City

dokki

Orcid

0000-0002-0881-5111

Volume

67

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

45406

Issue Date

2024-04-01

Receive Date

2023-09-24

Publish Date

2024-04-01

Page Start

279

Page End

289

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_327711.html

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Original Article

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Energy Efficiency Improvement Approaches in Sugarcane Industry: A Case Study

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Created At

30 Dec 2024