Case Study: Sugar Process – Kenyan based sugar factory saves millions of shillings in down time production costs.
SITUATION
A leading Kenyan-based sugar industry with an installed capacity of 1,250 TCD experienced frequent shutdowns due to scaling of the evaporator tubes, leading to massive downtime and loss of production revenues during the cleaning of the evaporator tubes. Initially, the milling would shut down after 15 days of operation for evaporator tube cleaning.
In the sugar industry, process equipment scaling and under-deposit corrosion are serious problems, particularly at the evaporators. Heavy scaling occurs along the entire evaporation line where the thin juice must be
