FEB 2023

TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATED VINASSE

Vinasse concentration: why invest in this technology?

Undoubtedly, vinasse concentration technology has emerged as a great alternative for the industrial sector. This is because it reduces the volume of waste, reduces operating costs and makes management more sustainable, since it meets environmental and socioeconomic demands.

Vinasse concentration systems

Vinasse has long been the subject of research by institutes, universities and companies. The objectives are mainly to find more and more efficient techniques to use it and ways to reduce costs and impact on the environment.

In this scenario, the vinasse concentration system works by transforming a major environmental and financial problem into a true economic and sustainable solution.

Among its main applications are the manufacture of fertilizer and DDG in the case of vinasse from corn. Currently, there are two technologies that compact organic material: the already traditional concentration by evaporation and the concentration by reverse osmosis membranes.

Check out the main benefits of vinasse concentration:

• Decrease in volume;
• Low energy consumption;
• Decrease the need to collect and use water;
• Reuse of water withdrawn from vinasse in industrial and agricultural processes;
• Decreased soil saturation;
• Less risk of environmental contamination;
• Reduction of the presence of stable flies and other pests;
• More sustainable process and within environmental laws;
• Lower cost with fertigation logistics, such as transportation and equipment;
• Easy and automated operation;
• Lower investment cost, with good financial return;
• Equipment made of good materials, such as stainless steel;
• Less fouling, which reduces the frequency of maintenance;
• Models using autonomous evaporative condensers, which eliminate an external water source and cooling towers;
• Better use of vinasse nutrients by the soil;
• Decrease in the purchase of potassium.

The various advantages of the vinasse concentration system in the economy, the environment and society are undeniable. In addition, it presents an attractive return of investment on the industrial sector, which should increasingly adopt this technology.