BMA Info 53/2015

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A successful year for BMA America

New projects and new colleagues in Colorado.

Breaking new ground in Central America

Last year, a total of four top sugar producers in Central America decided to upgrade their plants. They opted for BMA products – breaking new ground for sugar factories in the region.

Installation and commissioning of a pan seeding system

In the beet sugar industry, pan seeding systems have been established for a long time. BMA has now successfully applied the process in the cane sugar industry.

Manufacturing and service – BMA Brazil expands its capacities

In 2012, BMA set up its subsidiary BMA Brasil Equipamentos Industriais Ltda. – who has since gone from strength to strength. A new production and service centre opened in Indaiatuba in early September 2014.

Interview

BMA Info talks to Igor Djoukwé

A force, to be reckoned with

BMA MENA Industries are going from strength to strength as a design and service provider in the Middle East and North Africa.

Agrosnabsakhar – How a project turned into a big surprise

On first contact with the Agrosnabsakhar sugar factory, nobody at BMA could have foreseen how this collaboration would grow.

Russian pioneers – VKT for a competitive edge

The Russian sugar industry is driving the extension and upgrade of its production sites and BMA plays a key role in this development. The result: a significant increase in output.

Four companies, three continents, two years, one goal

Together with Etihad Food Industries, the BMA Group has got a large-scale project off the ground – collaboration at its best.

Innovations for better performance – A new drying and cooling plant

A good cooling and drying system is the key to high sugar quality. Reason enough for BMA to continuously enhance this equipment, launching new and innovative products on the market.

A premiere in Pakistan – Successful commissioning of two falling-film evaporators

Reducing consumption of resources to a minimum while enhancing performance – those were the objectives for a factory in Pakistan specified in the order JDW Sugar Mills Ltd. placed with BMA.

Indian Cane Power Ltd.– More revenue thanks to co-generation

Indian Cane Power Ltd. (ICPL) relies on bagasse for power generation. For several years now, BMA has helped the company implement its innovative concepts with numerous supplies of equipment.

Uzbekistan‘s most cutting-edge factory

The Angren Shakar refinery was commissioned in August 2014.

Expanding centrifugal production for China

In 2014, BMA China expanded its assembly range to include not only continuous centrifugals but also batch-type machines (see also BMA Info 52/2014). The model in question belongs to the well-established and reliable B series.

Centrifugals from BMA: Made in Germany

2014 was a truly international year, also for BMA‘s product business: customers on all continents opted for BMA centrifugals.

BMA Automation: a complex factory acceptance test

With the supply of the process control system including all key electrical equipment, BMA Automation was involved in the design of the new refinery in Iraq right from the start. The complex factory acceptance test was a major milestone on the path to the finished plant.

Scientific exchange across the globe – BMA at international conferences

BMA has been presenting the latest developments from current international sugar industry projects at conferences across the globe. The report on the upgrade and capacity extension of the ICPL cane sugar factory is a recent outstanding example.

Engineering projects for the cane and beet sugar industries

In the beet sugar industry, pan seeding systems have been established for a long time. BMA has now successfully applied the process in the cane sugar sector.

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19.05.2016

New cossette mixer for Michigan Sugar

BMA replaces equipment in Sebewaing

Every old piece of equipment has to be replaced eventually. The reasons to name a few may be maintenance cost, capacity increase or process improvements.

More efficient equipment made in Germany

The last few years have seen an increased interest of the US sugar beet industry in the modernisation of their aging extraction systems. In March 2015, Michigan Sugar Sebewaing, MI made the decision for a new counter current cossette mixer, defoamer and cossette pumps.

Welding of upper and lower trough (Photo: Sebewaing Tool & Engineering)
Welding of upper and lower trough (Photo: Sebewaing Tool & Engineering)

The mixer is 5.2 m in diameter and 8.0 m long and has an operating range of 4,800 to 8,000 sht/d at a maximum draft of 120 %o.b. The low limit is determined by the failing heat exchange with minimum cossette load and consequently warm raw juice. The high limit is given by a maximum cossette load in the cross section and high juice flow through the screen. A cossette mixer has two functions. In a first area it is a heat exchanger which improves the heat economy of the extraction system and reduces the steam consumption for the factory. It uses the hot raw juice from the extraction tower to pre-heat the cold cossettes which are densely packed through internal flights and stops. In a second area the cossette mixer loosens up the dense cossette pack to produce a pumpable cossette/juice mixture which is pumped through cossette pumps into the extraction tower. The cold raw juice leaving the CCCM also helps to prevent infections.

The manufacturing of the cossette mixer was executed by BMA Germany. The partially assembled mixer arrived in Sebewaing by end of December 2015. The final assembly of the upper and lower trough and the end plates, which requires welding, was done off site close to the factory. Final installation will take place in June 2016. This should be a relatively easy task because the mixer will already be fully assembled and can slide into its nal location in a new annex to the main factory building. Commissioning is scheduled for August 2016 at the start of the 2016/2017 campaign.

Hans Schmidt
BMA America
hans.schmidt@bma-us.com