A review and discussion with no cited referencesProcess chems. such as mill sanitation compounds, flocculants, evaporator scale inhibitors, pan boiling aids, bagasse pol reducers in addition to boiler chems. (waterside and fireside) play an important role in sugar industry for improving productivity.In modern trends, manufacturing process for refined sugar, raw sugar, plantation white sugar and liquid sugar involves use of activated carbon, ion exchange resins and these chems.Process chems. offer maximum utilization of equipment, saving on utilities, extends equipment life and most important is the increase in the productivity.Consistent crushing and better productivity can be achieved by using process chems.Mill sanitation compound arrests inversion of sucrose and in turn saves sugar.Flocculant gives crystal clear juice, which helps in energy saving and sugar color.Evaporator scale inhibitor gives clean evaporator surface, so better heat transfer and better utilization of evaporator and saving on steam is obtained.Pan viscosity reducer gives better molasses exhaustion and good sugar crystals can be obtained.Bagasse pol reducer saves the sugar loss in bagasse and helps to increase the recovery.Clean waterside and fireside surface of boilers give maximum heat efficiency and hence consistent steam supply to factory.The role of each chem. to enhance the process efficacy is discussed in this paper.
