Specialty:

Promoting local manufacturing – energy – agriculture and food

The project team:

Eng. Mohammed Abd Allah Ali (the delegated member in Edfu Factory for Pumpkin Seeds and Paper)

Project description:

Molasses manufacturing in Egypt and even at the international level is done in a traditional way which is filling the open cooking tanks made of iron, brick or stainless steel with low-concentration juice then heating with flipping using wooden branches to get the wanted concentration.

The disadvantages:

• The unhealthy conditions of the work environment.
• The lack of cooking temperature control, which reduces the rate of transformation and therefore affects the characteristics of the produced molasses.
• The fall of insects during the heating process leads to an unhealthy product
• Heat loss resulting from burning in open places.

The new method aims at producing healthy molasses with high quality and low energy cost, using a one-stage evaporator. This process is to heat the juice in an evaporator by steam and it is automatically flipped by a pump that mixes the juice in the evaporator during heating.

The advantages:

• keep the working environment healthy.
• Obtain a high-quality and healthy product.
• Reduce the energy cost.

The new in the invention is to complete the cooking process in a closed evaporator and getting the following advantages:

1. The heating process is carried out by the steam around the pipes through which the juice passes.

2. Control the required temperature and get the largest transformation rate up to 65%.

3. The flipping process is done mechanically, which helps in the homogeneity of the syrup during the cooking process.

4. Avoiding the falling of insects.

5. Maintain the working environment

6.  Reduce the cost of energy.

The targeted stakeholders:

The Molasses Factories.