Identification of opportunities to save water in a beet sugar factory

摘要

A typical water and waste water system in a beet sugar factory consists of three interacting subsystems. First the main water and waste water circuit incorporating fresh water intake, beet fluming and washing, water regeneration by soil separation and waste water treatment, and waste water discharge. Second, the water circuit of the sugar manufacturing and power generation processes; its functions include discharging low pressure vapors that carry waste heat. And third, the barometric circuit incorporating condensation of low pressure vapors in mixing condensers and dissipation of waste heat from cooling water circulated through cooling towers.