Kanpur: Country's first sugar refinery equipped with the modern-day high technique will start functioning in the city's acclaimed National Sugar Institute from the next year. The work on putting up its building has also been initiated.
Two kinds of techniques will be brought into use for refining the sugar. First, there is a process of ion exchange resins & deep bed filter and secondly, there will be the use of active carbon and membrane filtration.
The director, national sugar institute, Prof Narendra Mohan said that both the modes were going to be used for the first time in this refinery.
Constructing with a cost of Rs 2.5 crore this refiñery will be the first of its kind where two different types of tools for decolourization will be fitted with. Raw sugar will be preprepared in this process and afterwards, it will be changed into refined sugar. Lime and Phosphoric acid will be mixed into syrupy sugar and then it will produce refined sugar after decolouring.
Prof Mohan also made it clear that all the attention in regards to making the process eco-friendly will be kept into consideration. This refinery unit will consume merely 27 Kws power while there remains a consumption of 30 Kws power.
