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MASS BALANCES TO OPTIMISE A CALCIUM-GLUCONATE PRODUCTION PLANT.

Article number
476_22
Pages
197 – 204
Language
Abstract
Glucona by manufactures ingredients for the pharmaceutical industry from starch.
One of the starch derivatives that is produced is calcium-gluconate.
Process engineers of Glucona were researching the possibility of optimising the calcium-gluconate production process by adjusting the centrifuge process, which is the bottleneck of the plant.
Glucona has asked Vertis by to calculate the mass balances of the calcium-gluconate plant.
Vertis has constructed a model of the plant using Aspen+. The model and the simulation results are discussed.
The simulation results confirmed/founded the ideas of the process engineers: the calcium-gluconate production can be optimised by decreasing the washing period during the centrifuge process.

Publication
International Symposium on Applications of Modelling as InnovativeTechnique in the Agri-Food Chain. MODEL-IT
Authors
R.A. Hamming, J.W. Huisman, H.F. Bartelds
Keywords
mass balances, modelling, calcium-gluconate, pharmaceutical ingredients, starch, flowsheeting, Aspen+
Full text
https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1998.476.22
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