Evaporation by mechanical vapor recompression. Final report, September, 1979 - October 31, 1980

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:6423635

Iverson, C H; Coury, G E; Fischer, J H

A review of existing technology and application of the mechanical vapor recompression and falling film evaporation in both the sugar and non-sugar industries, and the potential of application to the domestic beet sugar industry is made. Upon assimilating the information gathered, certain design guidelines were established, possible candidate factories for a demonstration project were identified, and a preliminary technical and economic evaluation of the sites was made. The Nampa, Idaho plant of the Amalgamated Sugar Company was selected as the most amenable from the standpoint of technical compatibility, the most attractive on investment and the enthusiasm of the management. Preliminary engineering was done for the Nampa site, permitting a reasonably definitive installed cost estimate to be made. Based upon a synthetic energy balance, the steam savings were calculated and translated into dollars using 1980 fuel costs escalated to 1982 at 12% per year. These efforts generated a gross return on investment calculation of 40.7% based upon fuel savings divided by capital cost. The estimate included adequate instrumentation for the monitoring and measuring of all the process parameters for the purpose of assessing the performance of each component. A complete testing program for accomplishing this evaluation was developed. Additional information is presented in 7 appendices.

• Research Organization: Beet Sugar Development Foundation, Fort Collins, CO (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-79CS40208
• OSTI ID: 6423635
• Report Number(s): BSDF-38-4Q-80; ON: DE81022517
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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