Study of Energy and Exergy of Elgunied Sugar Company Plant in Sudan

Biomass cogeneration systems are capable of producing electrical and thermal energies simultaneously from the same power source in an effective manner. The sugarcane industry is one of the most significant biomass cogeneration systems in the world, and it gets its energy from sugarcane bagasse. Biomass cogeneration systems are capable of producing electrical and thermal energies simultaneously from the same power source in an effective manner. The sugarcane industry is one of the most significant biomass cogeneration systems in the world, and it gets its energy from sugarcane bagasse. The boiler, turbine, mills, and Sugar Distributed Heating System (SDHS) of the Elgunied sugar factory are investigated and tested in the present study using a helpful idea of analyzing the energy and exergy. The flow of energy and exergy across various components is depicted in the current work. It was found that the boiler has the greatest percent of energy destruction compared to the total amount of energy destruction (81.39%), indicating that it is the most important contributor of irreversibilities (34.393 MW exergy destruction compared to (2.857 MW) exergy destruction in mills). In order to maximize the system performance in older systems, extra attention and research must be given to the boiler in particular.