Determinación de los procesos de fabricación del azúcar y análisis de la producción de seis ingenios azucareros del Ecuador

Abstract

Sugar production is one of the country's main economic activities. Some of the main Sugar Mills in the country are: La Troncal, San Carlos, Valdez, Isabel María, IANCEM and Monterrey; being the Sugar Mills of greater relevance La Troncal, San Carlos and Valdez, since their contribution is ninety percent to the National production. In the present investigation, the manufacturing process of refined sugar of each of the sugar mills mentioned above is described. In general, the processes are made up of the following unit operations: feeding, grinding, purification, clarification, evaporation, crystallization, drying and packaging, being able to obtain two types of sugar: white sugar and brown sugar, whose destination covers the market at National and international. In 2020, the national production of total sugar was an average of 7,363,443.5 bags of 50 kilograms of sugar, where the Sugar Mills with the greatest contribution were: La Troncal, Valdez and San Carlos, which produced 5,911,819.5 bags of 50 kilograms of sugar , while the lowest production was from the Isabel María, IANCEM and Monterrey Sugar Mills with 1,451,624 sacks of 50 kilograms of sugar.