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SUGAR BLEACHING IN AGROctober 2000
PRELIMINARY EVALUATIONby
H. Pareja, A.C. Moutella, R. Yoshida
OVERVIEW• Ozone to bleach sugar proved to be
technically feasible in agitated reactor.• However, consumption were high.• No toxicity was detected at all, but• At long contact time or high Ozone dosage,
off-flavors were noticed.• To remove these off-flavors, additional step
applying CaCO3 was proposed.
Objectives• Establish best conditions to AGR operation.• Evaluate AGR performance to bleach sugar
with Ozone.• Acquire kinetics information.• Acquire parameters to scale-up• Adjust O3 generator.
Test programbatch motor
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avaliar efeito conc. O3
nível reatorponto de injeção dosagem de O3 conc. O3
livre
sem O3
para definir melhor condição operacional
otimizando cinética de ozonização
est. consumo energia p/ agitaraval. red. de potência melhor condição
repetir melhor condição
para testes confirmatórios
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UPDATE• Tests
– AGR pilot scale 200 liter nominal– Ozone generator capacity: 1.5 Kg/h– Ozone concentration: 5-7%– 5 tests, 25 samples, 100 analysis
• Product parameters– color, Brix, pH and turbidity
Let’s see the work• Next, a graph represents the results obtained.• It is important to notice that initial color shows a good
value of below 200 icumsa.• Average values can be considered 400 and worst 800
icumsa• These tests evaluated the best position inject ozone, if at
the entrance of the vortex or at the end of the draft-tube.• It was also evaluated if the reactor would be work with
(favor headspace suction) or without vortex (favor internal recirculation).
Main Results
0
50
100
150
200
250
0 20 40 60 80TIME (min.)
color
(icum
sa)T1T3aT4aT3bT4b
Confused?• Although logical, the results are dificult to
evaluate. • Color decreases quickly, but as it lowers the
value , the “decoloring” reactions reduces its kinetics.
• It seems that this reactions has a logartimic behavior , like C = Co ekt.
• So, let’s see as a log graph.
Log evaluationy = -0,0121x + 2,1548y = -0,014x + 2,2801
y = -0,0162x + 1,9687
y = -0,0123x + 2,1154
y = -0,016x + 1,9798
0,0
0,5
1,0
1,5
2,0
2,5
0 20 40 60 80time (min.)
log Co
lor
T1 T3T4 T3T4 Linear (T1)Linear (T3) Linear (T3)Linear (T4) Linear (T4)
Best results
Despite lines seem to equal. O3 dosage for T4 was higher
T1 - Inj. Super., vortexT3 - Inj. Infer, vortexT4 - Inj. Infer, no vortex
Too much math and info?• Humm! Ok. Just take attention to these
observations:– Log graphs are better to analyse this process.– A straight line represents the process using an
AGR. But more data have to be collected.– More inclined is the line, more quickly the
color decreases .– Next we are going to see the effect of the
dosage
0
50
100
150
200
250
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500dosage (mgO3/L)
color
T1T3aT4aT3bT4b
Dosage and Color
Very low values were achieved
Comparing to previous tests
0,0
0,5
1,0
1,5
2,0
2,5
3,0
0 2000 4000 6000dosage (mgO3/L)
log (C
or)log AGRlog conv.Linear (log AGR)Linear (log conv.)
AGR values lower than conventional
Preliminary Conclusions• AGR is better than conventional reactors for
sugar bleaching with ozone.• During the tests initial color was very low.• AGR reduces ozone consumption by 30%
under current test condition.• AGR works stable. Ozone generator did not
showed stability.(?)
Next work• New tests have to be programmed with
higher initial color.• Effect of higher ozone concentration has to
be evaluated.• Kinetics will be evaluated.• Process conditions will be defined.