WO2020208648A1 - Energy generation from distillery effluent streams. - Google Patents
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- WO2020208648A1 WO2020208648A1 PCT/IN2020/050332 IN2020050332W WO2020208648A1 WO 2020208648 A1 WO2020208648 A1 WO 2020208648A1 IN 2020050332 W IN2020050332 W IN 2020050332W WO 2020208648 A1 WO2020208648 A1 WO 2020208648A1
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
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- F23G5/00—Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor
- F23G5/08—Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor having supplementary heating
- F23G5/14—Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor having supplementary heating including secondary combustion
- F23G5/16—Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor having supplementary heating including secondary combustion in a separate combustion chamber
- F23G5/165—Incineration of waste; Incinerator constructions; Details, accessories or control therefor having supplementary heating including secondary combustion in a separate combustion chamber arranged at a different level
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
- F23G—CREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
- F23G2206/00—Waste heat recuperation
- F23G2206/10—Waste heat recuperation reintroducing the heat in the same process, e.g. for predrying
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
- F23G—CREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
- F23G2206/00—Waste heat recuperation
- F23G2206/20—Waste heat recuperation using the heat in association with another installation
- F23G2206/203—Waste heat recuperation using the heat in association with another installation with a power/heat generating installation
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
- F23G—CREMATION FURNACES; CONSUMING WASTE PRODUCTS BY COMBUSTION
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- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
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- TITLE ENERGY GENERATION FROM DISTILLERY EFFLUENT STREAMS.
- the invention relates to a method for the generation of steam and electricity using effluent streams, like raw spent wash stream, produced in alcohol distilleries. More particularly it relates to the use of high-brix concentration system (HBCS) to produce a concentrated semi-solid stream having more calorific value, which is self-combustible and useful to produce steam and electricity to be used in distillery.
- HBCS high-brix concentration system
- the conventional method of disposal of spent wash is bio-methanation, composting, concentration and incineration.
- the effluent discharged from bio methanation has a biological hazardous creating significant air, water and soil pollutions, so, it requires secondary treatment.
- Composting procedure requires large land and because of more solids in the form of organic and inorganic complexes with very high BOD and COD creates pollution everywhere.
- spent wash or biomethanated spent wash is left in open fields to compost and then remains are used as fertilizer, etc. At some large factories it is evaporated to partially recover water that is disposed of in natural streams and the concentrated part is left for composting or drying.
- the invention herein discloses a method using a high-brix evaporation system for the concentration of effluent streams, like distillery raw spent wash, to semi-solid self-combusting material that can be directly incinerated in the boiler to generate steam and electricity, having several advantages over known methods.
- High-brix evaporation means the input stream has higher solids content up to 50-55% W/W of TS and the output stream has solid content up to 65-80% W/W of TS.
- FIGURE 1 depicts a process flow diagram for generation of energy from said effluent stream.
- the effluent stream is subjected to simple evaporation system to produce a first stream.
- said first stream is fed to high-brix evaporator system to produce a second stream, which is semi-solid and directly used as a fuel for boiler for the generation of steam and electricity.
- the disclosed process includes following steps: a) effluent collection [stream (3)], b) simple evaporation (E), c) high-brix evaporation (RE), and d) incineration in boiler furnace(B) to generate steam and electricity.
- the molasses is major raw materials for ethanol production. It mainly contains up to 58% sugar by weight.
- molasses-based distillery molasses (1) gets fermented in fermentation unit(R) to produce fermented mash stream (2) and carbon dioxide (12). Said fermented mash is then send to distillation column (C) to recovered ethanol (6).
- the remaining stream (3) of distillation column is rich in non-sugar fractions of molasses and dead yeast cells and comes out as effluent generally called as vinasse, raw spent wash, distillery effluent, stillage, distillery slops, etc.
- This effluent stream (3) is rich in organic matters with good fuel value.
- This effluent stream (3) with from 10 % to 25 % W/W of total solids (TS) is partially concentrated in a multiple effect evaporator (E) to produce a first stream (4) and a first condensate stream (7).
- This is a conventional evaporation process which concentrates said effluent stream from about 10 % to 25 % to about 30 to condensate stream is recycled for process and utility application.
- said first stream (4) is further fed to a high-brix rotary type evaporator (RE) where said first stream is heated to between 70°C and ioo°C to produce a second stream (5) having about 65% to 8o%W/W of TS with calorific value between 1900 and 2400 kcal/kg, which is semi-solid and self-combustible suitable for direct incineration.
- Said second stream (5) is flowable and pumped further to boiler (B) and incinerated to generate high pressure steam (9), which is expanded further in turbine (T) to produce low pressure steam (10) and electricity (11) to be used for the purposes of the distillery plant.
- said simple evaporation system uses one or more of rising film, falling film, forced falling film or forced circulation type evaporation unit.
- said self-cleaning high-brix concentration system uses by one or more rotary, agitated thin film, wiped film or pan type evaporator unit.
- These high-brix evaporators are self-cleaning meaning they do not accumulate the concentrated materials and due to its internal structures remove all the materials from its body. Therefore significantly reducing overall cleaning chemical requirement of said concentration / evaporation system.
- the second stream having more than 80% W/W TS is maintained flowable by adding viscosity reducing agents / enzymes depending upon said stream behaviour at higher concentrations.
- auxiliary fuel is sometime required to meet the increased energy requirement of distillery plant depending on molasses sugar content.
- Coal, bagasse, wood, fuel oil, diesel, natural gas or biogas, rice husk, or any other biomass can be used as an auxiliary fuel.
- the invention discloses a combine effect of simple evaporation system and rotary type self-cleaning high-brix evaporation system to generate a self combustible concentrated stream from effluent streams of distilleries.
- the process has several advantages over the known methods as listed below:
- the rotary type evaporator has rotating scrappers either fixed type or hinged type which scraps the evaporator heating surface so that it is free from fouling and scaling while concentrating the effluent stream to up to 8o% W/W TS.
- This type is called a self-cleaning high-brix evaporator system.
- a batch of 396 metric ton (MT) of cane molasses (with about 43% w/w fermentable sugars and 80% w/w total solids) was used for ethanol production in a distillery plant.
- Said molasses was fed to fermentation unit to produce about 879 MT fermented mash and about 75 MT carbon dioxide gas.
- Said fermented mash was further treated in a distillation column to recover about 100 KLPD ethanol and said fermentation batch produced about 619 MT raw spent wash stream or effluent stream with about 25% w/w total solids (TS).
- Said effluent stream was the firstly treated by simple evaporation to partially concentrated first stream having about 50% w/w TS.
- said first stream was further fed to high-brix evaporation system in a rotary evaporator to produce a second stream having about 72% w/w TS, with calorific value of about 2200 kcal/kg.
- This second stream being self-combustible and flowable, and was pumped further to boiler for incineration to generate steam and power.
- the above process produced about 215 MT second stream and which on incineration produced about 26.5 TPH gross steam and 2.6 MWh Power which was sufficient to run the distillery plant, requiring no additional external source of fuel or energy.
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