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Original research ENHANCING SUGAR PRODUCTIVITY BY USING CANE DIFFUSER WITH DEWATERING MILL IN JUICE EXTRACTION PROCESSPages 45-52
Abstract
Ethiopia becoming one of the fastest economically growing countries in the world and expanding different manufacturing sectors. Sugar manufacturing is also one sector that produces sugar and sugar is an essential commodity and sugar industries play a great role in the economic development of the country. Sugar manufacturing needs to produce a product that satisfies customers according to its requirements and increases the competitiveness of companies by reducing the supply-demand gap that exists. But exist sugar productivity is very low and the sugar production process is unsatisfactory for the country’s competitive advantage. Sugar product has a high value in the country and there is a gap between locally produced supply and demand, also the amount of produced sugar is much bellow of the manufacturing management expectation. The system of the juice extraction process in the sugar manufacturing shows loss of sugar because it uses a sugar mill which is an old and traditional system in juice extraction process with less efficiency of juice extraction, high microbial growth, high maintenance, operational, and capital cost, high power consumption and supervise manpower requirement. Due to these reasons, the productivity of sugar is very low when compared with existing demand. To enhance sugar productivity, it needs to improve and update the ways of producing their extraction of juice in the sugar manufacturing process. To enhance the productivity of sugar manufacturing, it uses a diffuser with a dewatering mill in juice extraction, because it has less power consumption, high efficiency of juice extraction, high-quality sugar and less manpower, microbial growth, maintenance, capital, operational, foundation and construction cost. This paper, depending on the different gaps existing on juice extraction it takes a single sugar manufacturing among existing because all are it uses sugar mill in juice extraction and it focused on the diffuser with dewatering mill is essential in enhancement of sugar productivity. The result of the study is to reduce the existing: manpower to 21, microbial growth with a temperature of 80 oc. to 85 oc., maintenance and operational by $71500, capital by $1957500, foundation and construction by $442580 cost and increasing of juice extraction efficiency to 98.4% per day extraction, quality of sugar and end product yield by 29.33 tons per day.
Keywords: Sugar productivity, Diffuser with dewatering mill, Milling tandem, juice extraction..
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Moti Melkamu, 
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