Energy Reduction of Refined Sugar Drying Process in Rotary Dryer and Conditioning Silo Consolidate

Abstract

Amount of water content in fresh air phenomena direct heat affect to be changed fresh air to hot air state for reducing refined sugar moisture during drying and conditioning process. A change relative humidity of air results in a significant variation of heat transfer rate. Therefore, in this research energy reduction of refined sugar drying and conditioning process study of these phenomena was conducted both experimentally and theoretically. Several experiments was performed employing a rotary dryer and a conditioning silo. In each experiment one of the air moisture content was changed and the resulting consumption of steam changed on the process was measured. The objective of this research was to reduce exhaust steam to heated up fresh air to hot air by installing dehumidifier. Evaluation of these results showed that the low humidity of fresh air are well suited for applied of refined sugar drying process, giving the perfect performance in which quality of refined sugar impacted can be eliminated and reduction of energy can thereby improve, with the aim of enhancing energy saving.