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Unleash the power of digital tools: process development and scale-up for chromatography units assisted by Perform 4.0
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025Chromatography is a technique of choice for the purification of saccharides (glucose, fructose, sucrose, oligosaccharides). APPLEXION has developed a digital tool (Perform 4.0) to validate the design of an industrial chromatography system from pilot scale and to enhance production and reduce chemicals and energy consumption. Process development comprised experiments at laboratory scale, modeling, simulation and digital tool configuration. Perform 4.0 helped the conduct of an industrial unit by choosing optimal settings and maintaining production.
Updates to the design of high-pressure traveling-grate boilers to fire challenging biomass and vinasse
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025Biomass (including bagasse) is acknowledged as a renewable and eco-friendly energy source, gaining traction on a global scale. Combustion of some biomass has always been a challenge in traveling-grate technology because of the highly fouling and corrosive nature of ash.
Valuation of the impact of the use of green-cane harvesting on the back end of bagasse boilers
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025The effects of corrosion due to the presence of sulphur in fuel have been widely studied and recommendations have been made on the position of economizer-heater arrangement, minimum temperatures of air, water and gases and others.
White sugar production without the use of decolorizing agents
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025Sugar color is a key quality parameter affecting market acceptance and profitability. Conventional decolorizing agents add costs to sugar production, driving the need for alternative methods. This study evaluated anionic-cationic flocculant mixtures in juice clarification to enhance color reduction without decolorizing agents. Factory trials were conducted to determine the optimal flocculant ratio, followed by a 3-month implementation period.