Saturday, February 9, 2013

IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY IN SUGAR MILLS BY INTEGRATING CO-PRODUCTS UTILISATION


By
M. ENRÍQUEZ POY1 and R. PRADO2
1Director, Grupo MOTZORONGO
2Coordinador of Periferical Bussines Grupo MOTZORONGO
poymanuel@prodigy.net.mx

KEYWORDS: Productivity, Hydrolysed Bagasse, Compost, Biogas, Invert Rich, Molasses.

Abstract

This paper shows an ‘incentive program’ for workers, through one model of development,
using mainly co-products of sugarcane; used in different ways in ‘Granja Teresita’, 25
kilometres from the mill.
The mill has a plant to hydrolyse bagasse intwo batch reactors by a physical process
(using steam at 1.4 MPa) and areas for composting residuals (90 days, without enzymatic
process), and sell the production to the ranch.
For cattle and goats, we use the cane topswith molasses, hydrolysed bagasse, wet
fibre cane ‘cush – cush’ separated in clarifier filters, and other agriculture residuals of the
region.
For pigs, invert ‘B’ molasses and some locally produced complements are used. For
sustainable agriculture, organic fertiliser (compost), made from sugar mill products (vacuum
filter mud, bagasse, ashes, etc), and worm compost, produced locally, are used with lamb
manure.
A range of crops is grown including cornand sorghum and horticultural crops, and
there is also an aquaculture industry.


Co-Products Proc. Int. Soc. Sugar Cane Technol., Vol. 27, 2010 
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