• Bhargavaram A Anuse
• S.P Chavan
• A. V. Walvekar

Drying is one of the energy intensive events in most of the process industries, which consumes about 20 percentage of total energy consumption of the plant. In sugar industry the main byproduct and source of energy is bagasse. The bagasse produced after extraction of sugar cane juice from sugar cane, but bagasse comes out from mill section is having 45 to 52 percentage of moisture. This bagasse is directly feed to boiler furnace. Such high moisture contained bagasse is having low calorific value and creates many problems. In this paper, experiments were conducted on bench type rotary bagasse dryer model. The model was tested for different input parameters. The different baffles were used in rotary drum and most effective baffles were identified. In this study, it is concluded that tangential baffles are most effective and maximum reduction of moisture was achieved in this type of baffles. The rotary dryer can employ in sugar industry to dry the bagasse effectively. The introduction of rotary bagasse dryer in sugar industry leads to increase overall efficiency and productivity of sugar industry.

Bagasse drying, Rotary bagasse dryer, Baffles patterns, Residence time, prototype model

"Experimental Optimization of Baffles Patterns Used in Prototype Model of Rotary Bagasse Dryer", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.736-741, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901298.pdf

"Experimental Optimization of Baffles Patterns Used in Prototype Model of Rotary Bagasse Dryer", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp736-741, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901298.pdf