1. Spent wash Treatment to Reduce Pollution and to earn profits to help sugar industry & in particular fermentation industry to totally avoid Pollution By
V. M. Kulkarni
November 10 – 13, 2012
6th International Sugar Conference
Aswan, Egypt
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2. Spent wash facts in India
India has more than 550 sugar factories
Crushing about 160 – 220 million tones cane
Produces about 15 – 24 million tones sugar
Or produces 6.4 – 8.8 million MT pressed mud
Or 7.2 – 10 million MT molasses
Average cane crushing is about 120 – 180 days
Distilleries operate for about 250 – 300 days
VM BIOTECH, Pune, INDIA

3. Spent wash facts in India
There are more than 250 distilleries attached to sugar mills
Capacity varies 30, 45, 60 and 90 KLPD alcohol
The average capacity can be 50 KLPD
Thus average spent wash production would be 600 m3 per day
Or 2 million m3 spent wash per year considering only 200 days of operation consuming 1.4 million MT molasses only!
VM BIOTECH, Pune, INDIA

4. Spent wash facts in India
There is plenty of molasses left untreated
In other wards there is potential to increase alcohol production by at least 7 times!
The greatest limiting factor that hinders the growth of alcohol industry is POLLUTION!
And there is no economically viable SOLUTION for this POLLUTION
This is not limited to India only; it’s a Global Problem without appropriate solution
VM BIOTECH, Pune, INDIA

5. Spent wash facts …. COD - 110000 - 120000 mg/lit
BOD mg/lit
Highly toxic.
It is an Environmental hazard.
Very difficult to treat.
Globally no one has come closer to solve the menace, economically.
VM BIOTECH, Pune, INDIA

6. Present treatment(?) process..
Biomethanation to produce biogas.
Outlet of treated spent wash has following properties:
COD mg/lit
BOD mg/lit
Total solids mg/lit
Color IU
This is further taken for evaporation!
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7. Why Evaporation?
spraying spent wash to pressed mud for composting is allowed by pollution control board and is found to be the legal way to dispose spent wash.
One factory, as an example produces MT pressed mud by crushing about 10 lac MT cane
It has 60 KLPD distillery producing 800 m3 spent wash per day for 300 days!
1kg pressed mud can absorb 2.5 liter spent wash, thus volume must be reduced to less than 200 m3 from 800 m3 per day
VM BIOTECH, Pune, INDIA

8. Present process, unsolved issues:
The problem of color is not solved, in fact it is aggravated by concentration Such compost, when used in the field, is likely to leach the color contaminating water bodies Huge amount of precious energy is wasted for concentrating the problem Spent wash is highly corrosive; equipment used for concentrating will have to be replaced in few years
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9. VM Biotech technology for spent wash
Spent wash after treating in biogas digester is feed to this Novel system.
The technology will produce water with parameters as follows..
COD less than mg/lit
BOD less than 1000 mg/lit
Color less than IU (Transparent yellow to brown/red)
And 0.3% solids having about 3100 calorific value
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11. VM BIOTECH, Pune, INDIA

12. VM Biotech technology for spent wash
Treated spent wash can be safely used for composting pressed mud that can absorb about 8 – 10 liter treated spent wash per kg pressed mud
Thus entire quantity of treated spent wash is used for composting, no evaporation.
The composting will be complete as there are no inhibitors present and will be of International standard and can be sold at more than INR 8000 per MT
VM BIOTECH, Pune, INDIA

13. VM Biotech technology for spent wash
Capital cost to treat 800 m3 spent wash is about INR 3.80 Cr
Cost of treatment of entire spent wash for year is about INR 2.40 Cr
Color problem solved completely
No evaporation, thus Saves more than INR 20 Cr per year
Separated solid can generate 4 MW Power every day
High Quality compost is bonus!
VM BIOTECH, Pune, INDIA

14. VM BIOTECH Technology .. Advantages.
Most enviro-friendly treatment process.
Low cost, yielding huge profits!
No water pollution from distillery
No evaporation, saves about INR 20 Cr
Good grade of treated water output.
It can be directly used for making international grade compost fertilizer.
Problem of color solved completely.
The process generates significant profit to treat pollution!
VM BIOTECH, Pune, INDIA

15. VM Biotech technology, flexibility
Treated spent wash can be concentrated using MEV or RO system to recover water
Finally solids, rich in potash can be recovered as value added product
Or concentrated liquid can be used for composting
VM BIOTECH, Pune, INDIA