SEPTEMBER 2022

Citrotec^® presents new technology at fair in Brazil: Fenasucro 2022

Distillation equipment of hydrated ethanol coupled to Vinasse Concentrator Ecovin JL^® have been fully projected, assembled and installed by Citrotec^® in partner with Etech.

More than 30 years Fenasucro & Agrocana fair has offered high technical contents, specialized and in line with what the bioenergy market needs. After two Years without the event, because the pandemic, the fair returned in 2022 with the focus in tendencies, innovators, technologies, and new business opportunities.

And was exactly what Citrotec^® presented at the event, what is consider the most important sector in Brazil. “For us be here at Fenasucro is very important, because we encourage news bussines and we have always introduced news equipment to the Ethanol, Sugar and Energy sector”, says Paulo Henrique Sampaio, Citrotec^® CEO.

At this year the emphasis has been in Hydrated Ethanol Distillation apparatus coupled to the Vinasse Concentration Apparatus Ecovin JL^®. “We combine the best Technologies of the market so that the Ethanol, Sugar and Energy sector are served in all its specificities”, affirms Sampaio.

Ethanol Distillation Apparatus coupled to the Ecovin JL^® Vinasse Concentration Apparatus

The Hydrous Ethanol Distillation Apparatus coupled to the Ecovin JL^® Vinasse Concentration Apparatus has a production capacity of 500 m^³/day and has additional equipment that makes all the difference in the operation and production: reboiler, evaporative condenser and molecular sieve with a production capacity of 300m^³/day.

The Distillation Apparatus, Etech's greatest expertise, was designed for the production of high quality ethanol. To do so, it has a wine depletion column, a wine purification column, a rectifying column, a bottling column, a reboiler, a wine heater, a main condenser, a guardian condenser, a wine pre-heater, a main condenser, a hydrated ethanol cooler, a fusel oil cooler, a reflux flask, and a fusel oil decanter. Besides several centrifugal pumps, interconnections, valves, instrumentation, and control of the unit.

The Ecovin JL^® Vinasse Concentrator, on the other hand, developed, designed, and manufactured with Citrotec^® technology, has been of extreme importance to the sugar, ethanol and energy market. Vinasse is an issue of concern for the industry and has been discussed over the years.

With Ecovin JL^®, the company presents solutions to the problem. The project has evaporator tubes, pre-heaters, reheaters, regenerative wine heaters and an evaporative condenser. Just like the Distillation Apparatus, it has centrifugal and vacuum pumps, interconnections, valves, instrumentation, and unit control.

Another important component of this successful Citrotec^® and Etech project is the molecular sieve to produce anhydrous ethanol, in which water is 99.9% evaporated through an absorption process. The technology has adsorption vessels, ethanol evaporator, drag separator balloon, ethanol superheater, main condensers, guardian condensers, washing column, collector balloons, preheaters and heaters. And just like the other equipment, it also has valves, interconnections, and instrumentation.

The project follows all ISO 9001:2008 quality standards and several regulatory standards, such as NR-13, ASME, ANSI, ASTM, API, AWWA, ABNT and NBR6123.

Learn more about Hydrous Ethanol Distillation Apparatus coupled to the Ecovin JL^® Vinasse Concentration Apparatus for the sugar-energy industry. Ligue (16) 3303-9796 ou CLICK HERE and contact our sales department by email.

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