REVIEW PAPER ON PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF DISTILLERY PLANT THROUGH ENERGY CONSERVATION METHODS

India is amongst two largest sugar producing countries in the world and fourth largest producer of ethanol in the world and second largest in Asia. India produces about 2.75 billion liters alcohol annually. Many pervious researchers investigated energy conservation in sugar & distillery industrial sector. These studies are mostly focused on the fermentation process by molasses in distillery plant, the production of the ethanol distillated from sugar molasses by utilization of yeast. The energy conservation in such plants is never being given more attention by previous researchers. So there is wide scope of the energy conservation & efficiency improvement. For improve efficiency the suggestions are enumerated to achieve the effective conservation of energy, heat & fuel through modernization of equipments & technology. Such suggestions are helpful to increase the profitability of distillery sector.