Steam injection heating is helpful in a variety of markets and industries, but each project is unique. At ProSonix, we've worked on projects of all sizes and levels of complexity. With that experience comes valuable knowledge. Our team is happy to share a few summaries from past projects which may help provide insight and ideas for your own application.

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Ethanol Production - Starch Liquefaction

Ethanol (ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol) is produced through a liquefaction process whereby a starch is converted to a sugar, which is then converted to an alcohol product referred to as ethanol. Ethanol production requires a starch (corn, wheat, rye) based feedstock to supply the conversion process.

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Ethanol - Cellulosic Ethanol Fibrous Slurry & Biomass Pretreatment

Biomass pretreatment is the initial stage of preparing hemicellulosic materials such as corn stover, grass, straw, and wood fiber for ethanol conversion.

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Starch Processing Corn Wet Milling

Corn wet milling is the process of separating the corn kernel into starch, protein, germ and fiber in an aqueous medium prior to fermentation. The primary products of wet milling include starch and starch-derived products (e.g. high fructose corn syrup and ethanol), corn oil, corn gluten, and corn germ.

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Pulp and Paper - Whitewater Heating

White water is a fine particle slurry used throughout the papermaking process. Its name derives from fine fiber particles in the water that give it a milky white appearance. White water drains from the paper stock into pit below the paper machine and is used for a variety of uses in the papermaking process.

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Pulp and Paper - Green Liquor Heating & Recausticizing

Kraft Pulp mills produce pulp from wood chips. Within the pulp production, a chemical process produces green liquor. Green liquor is a combination of recovery boiler smelt, and dilute white liquor.

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Pulp and Paper - Stock Bleaching

Bleaching in the Pulp and paper industry are the processes that lighten and/or remove lignin from the pulp in order to brighten its appearance. Like most chemical reactions, temperature is a key variable in controlling the effectiveness of the bleaching process.

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Pulp and Paper - Starch Cooking

Wet End Starch - Starch added at the wet end to the paper slurry can help increase the sheet strength.

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Pulp and Paper - Paper Machine Boil-out

White water systems must periodically be cleaned to remove bacterial buildup that occurs over time. This process is known as boil-out, in which the white water is raised to near boiling temperatures (around 180-190°F) to kill any bacteria in the system. A caustic solution is sometimes added shorten the process and increase the effectiveness. The water is held at temperature until all bacteria are killed.

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Lime Slaker

A number of industries use hydrated lime addition for their processes. Hydrated lime (or calcium hydroxide, or slaked lime) is usually a dry powder resulting from the controlled slaking of quicklime with water.

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Anaerobic Digestion and Wastewater

There are two general types of heating sludge digestion processes known as aerobic and anaerobic digestion. Aerobic uses oxygen and anaerobic is an oxygen free environment. Anaerobic digestion is a biological process that breaks down for organic solids. In this process wastewater sludge is stored in large vessels, referred to as digesters that range from 0.5 – 3.0 million gallons of storage capacity.

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Food Processing - Heating Jacketed Kennels

Heating of jacketed kettles in the food industry is a common method of heating scorch sensitive products such as soups, sauces, & beverages. Typically steam is introduced to the kettle and circulated through the jacket to deliver the heat for processing.

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