Steam Boiler for Sugar Industry Cogeneration

Worldwide, the sugarcane industry has the potential to be a major generator of electric power for the electricity grid through the use of the by-product of sugarcane processing called bagasse as a fuel source. Many countries intall biomass power plant in the sugarcane industry for captive power generation, also there are thermal power plants investing the biomass based power plants for electricity. No matter a captive power plant or thermal power plant, boilers are the necessary and ZBG provides you power plant boiler burning bagasse, rice husk, straws, wood chips or other biomass fuels.

Bagasse firing boiler in a sugarcane cogneration

Initially, bagasse was used as a fuel solely for the evaporation of water in order to concentrate the sugar, since animal or hydropower was originally used to crush the cane. In time, the benefits of using steam power for in-plant power needs resulted in increased use of these by-products in energy production. The sugar industry worldwide offers the potential to produce about 500 TWh of electricity for export if significant energy-efficient gains could be made internally to the process of sugar production and advanced power generation technology was to be adopted along with increased residue collection from sugarcane growing. To reach this output would require a power generation rate of 450400 kWh/tc where tc is a tonne of cane processed. It shows the world cane production statistics from two viewpoints, the geographic area, and the development status. It can be seen that the majority of the sugarcane production is in developing countries.

If your sugar plant has the plan to install a bagasse firing power plant, contact us to find our engineer to design the program and calculate the price!