On the auspices day of “Basant Panchami”, after worshipping the “Maa Sarasvati”, the “Goddess of Knowledge”, the crushing operations at the Experimental Sugar Factory of National Sugar Institute started today. Professor Narendra Mohan, Director of the Institute, announced the commencement of the crushing operations by putting sugarcane in the cane carrier amid chanting of Vedic mantras.
Such sugar factory is not available in any sugar institute in the world for training the students. Various qualities of sugar can be manufactured in this Experimental Sugar Factory. Many new equipment and automatic process control systems are installed in the factory for providing intense and meaningful practical training to the students. This is the reason that the students of National Sugar Institute become skilled and capable technologists and engineers having better insight of the process of sugar manufacturing and thus remain in great demand in sugar and allied industries, said Prof. Mohan.
The research scholars of the institute shall also perform trials for assessing the efficiency and to carry out cost benefit analysis of techniques being developed by them for juice clarification and production of value added products from by products, particularly, bagasse. The Sugar Technology division while shall make trials of technique based on “Mechanical Clarification of Cane juice” which may enable reducing consumption of chemicals in sugar industry by around 33%, the Physical Chemistry division shall perform trials on production of dietary fibre from bagasse by an innovative technique, informed Director.
On this occasion, Assistant Professor of Sugar Engineering of the Institute’s Experimental Sugar Factory, Shri Vinay Kumar informed that this year besides giving the students practical exposure about raw sugar, refined sugar and plantation white sugar production, students will also be given practical knowledge on sugarcane management and effluent treatment related aspects.
