Sugars™ Revolutionizes Sugar Process Engineering

Sugar companies around the world rely on Sugars™ to make improvements to their factories.  Sugars is a powerful tool to analyze and improve sugar factories and refineries.  Because of its flexibility, it can calculate the material, heat and color balances of most sugar processes regardless of the process technique, or equipment used by the process.  Sugars has modeled thousands of processes for major sugar companies including both beet and cane factories and refineries in various parts of the world.  These processes cover everything from simple evaporators and complex boiling schemes, to complete factories with sophisticated molasses desugarization systems.  Sugars is used for beet and cane factories and refineries to:

A Sugars model is made for an existing sugar process, factory, or refinery and the model is used by Sugars to simulate the process.  The results from the simulation and actual process data are compared to verify the accuracy of the model.  When the accuracy of the model is verified, changes can be made to the model to see if the performance of the process will improve by making the changes.  Sugars predicts the change in operating results by doing the complete material, heat and color balances while considering all changes in sucrose solubility and crystallization.

Net process revenue is the difference in revenues from all products (sugar, molasses, bagasse, pulp, etc.) and the cost of all consumables (cane, beet, raw sugar, steam, water, chemicals, etc.).  Net process revenue differences between original and changed processes are used to make decisions about investing financial resources to make the process changes and equipment purchases.

Results from a Sugars simulation give full details about every flow stream in the process.  Some flow streams in the actual process are not accessible for data measurement.  Details about these flow streams can be obtained from the Sugars simulation.

Process engineers can learn about the process while building the Sugars model that is used to simulate the performance of a factory, or refinery.  Then, as changes are made to the process, the process engineer can observe the results from the changes and gain valuable operating experience that might otherwise take years to acquire from actual factory operations.

OPERATING FEATURES

• An unlimited number of factories and/or configurations can be analyzed.

• Printouts are provided for the material, heat and color balances; net process revenues; detailed flow stream components; and color and solubility coefficients.

• Different station types are available for constructing a flow diagram of the factory, and the stations can be arranged in any order.

• Both saturated and superheated steam formulations are included within the program.

• Microsoft Access data files are used by Sugars to store all of the data for a model.

• Error codes with descriptive messages are generated for exceptions detected during execution of the program.

• A User's Guide provides many examples including models of: a beet sugar factory, a cane sugar factory, a cane refinery, ion exchange and molasses desugarization.

Sugars is the world's most widely-used sugar process simulator.  Sugar companies use it to build models of their factories and refineries to realistically simulate their behavior.  Users can quickly analyze hundreds, or even thousands, of design variations and refine their designs until the performance of their process is optimized.  What used to take weeks, or even years, to analyze and test can now be done in hours using Sugars.  Users have dramatically reduced the time and cost of making process improvements, while significantly improving the performance of their factories.  Sugars is revolutionizing sugar process design for sugar companies, engineering firms and consultants.

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