PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF CRYSTALLIZATION SYSTEM OF A SUGAR PLANT USING GENETIC ALGORITHM

The availability analysis of the crystallization system in a sugar plant is explored in the present paper. There are various subsystem which are complex in nature and are repairable.. In a sugar plant, there are (i) feeding system (ii) refining system (iii) evaporation system (iv) crystallization system. One of the important systems is crystallization system. The crystallization system includes crystallization units, centrifugal pump and Sugar grader unit. If anyone of these units fails, overall refining system fails. The mathematical modeling is used for analyzing the availability. The differential equations of first order are developed. Normalizing conditions are applied to find out steady state availability and the equations are resolved. This result is helpful for analyzing availability and for determining maintenance approaches of sugar industry.