Recoverable Heat from sugar syrup vapour

HI !

I just saw a blog in the CO-GERERATION blog. A member has a sterling engine that the project was canceled by a cement plant. Maby you could use the engine to generate a lot of power, and help the sugar plant cut the cost of there energy costs.

The sugar vapors that you talk about seem to have enough heat to run his engine.

YOU should contact him and run the numbers to see if it will work ?

Maby a REDESIGN IS IN ORDER !

THANKS

goldrushnugget999

Assuming 90kg/h of steam can be captured at 99degC, and passed through a heat exchanger to emerge as water at 30degC, then: http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_steam.htm gives steam at 99degC of 2674kJ/kg of enthalpy, and water at 30degC 289kJ/kg of enthalpy. Difference is 2385kJ/kg, times flowrate of 90kg/h gives available heat transfer of 214650kJ/h or 59.6kW, so it's certainly worth looking at if a medium requiring heating can be found within a short distance.

HI PWSlak !

An IDEA JUST POPED IN TO MY HEAD, the maple sugar distillers in northern new england could use the heat to power there surrounding homes from the boiling pit that evaporates the water off of the maple sugar. is this being done at this point ? IF NOT THAN WHY ? THERE must hundreds of the processors up there ! BOY WHAT A LOT OF POWER !

THANKS

goldrushnugget999

HI ALL !

there was a new chemical discovery last week ! the completed process to process fructose a sugar that is made in to biogas & it is 40 percent more powerful than ethanol. similar to mid grade gasoline, it is a great breakthrough in green fuel !

this process would fit in to your companies products line, the waste could be turned into biogas to run all your future power needs.

thanks

goldrushnugget999