TY - JOUR ID - 35128 TI - The Lime and Flocculant Dose Optimization in the Clarification Process of a Sugar Factory JO - International Journal of New Chemistry JA - IJNC LA - en SN - 2645-7237 AU - Darouneh, Ehsan AU - Pirhooshyaran, Tahereh AU - Shalagheh, Hashem AD - Chemical Engineering Faculty, Dezful Brach, Islamic Azad University, Dezful, Iran AD - Agro-Industry Company of Karoon, Khuzestan, Iran Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 6 IS - 3 SP - 151 EP - 155 KW - Clarification KW - Separan KW - lime KW - Economic Analysis KW - Sugarcane DO - 10.22034/ijnc.2019.35128 N2 - The objective of this research was the economic analysis of two different methods for the clarification of sugarcane juice. The first method was the method of using 700 ppm of CaO (final pH=7.9) and 1 ppm of Separan flocculant which previouly was being used. The other method was using 500 ppm of CaO (final pH=7.4) and 3 ppm of Separan flocculant. This study was carried out on an industrial scale in the Karoon sugar industry in south west of Iran. The results showed that increasing the amount of Separan and reducing the amount of lime directly increases the purification and the brix of the juice besides reducing the amount of lime precipitation in the evaporators. Economic analysis of the total process showed that the second method of clarification was 5 % more economical. UR - https://www.ijnc.ir/article_35128.html L1 - https://www.ijnc.ir/article_35128_ffee714b9205c4b8eeb99ac25980d37a.pdf ER -