The Naran Lala Ltd., is more than 100 year old company and engaged in supply of distillery plants since 1939. In fact, India's first distillery plant was supplied by us (Patent Still) in the year 1942 to M/s. Kolhapur Sugar Mills, Kolhapur and until now we have supplied more than 100 plants all over India.

Looking to growing demand of continuous fermentation process in India, we have now entered into a technology transfer agreement with M/s. Engenho Novo Technologia Ltda, Brazil, for continuous fermentation process known as "FERCEN Process".

ENGENHO NOVO is a private R & D company dedicated exclusively to the development of new emerging technologies. Until now it has devoted to the development and marketing of technological innovations for the afro industrial sector, with particular emphasis to alcoholic fermentation and separation processes for the cane sugar and alcohol industry sectors in which it has concentrated most of its research and engineering activities.

ENGENHO NOVO have supplied more than 15 plants (capacity ranging from 100 KLPD to as high as 700 KLPD) in Brazil, which are running successfully.

In the "FERCEN" Continuous fermentation you are the master to choose your own size of the fermentor, yeast strain & substrate plus easy expandability, high turn down ration and of course high efficiency the hallmark of NARAN LALA plants.

Fercen Process

The FERCEN PROCESS developed by ENGENHO NOVO after several years of research, is a continuous Alcoholic Fermentation system for Ethanol production, which gives high yields, high productivity and high efficiency.

The FERCEN PROCESS can be suitable for a new project / new plant or could be easily adopted in any existing batch process plant, through small modifications in its installations.

The FERCEN PROCESS can operate with sugar cane juice, molasses or mixture of both; presenting low operating costs and operating flexibility.

The FERCEN PROCESS consists of a real breakthrough in the production of Ethanol. It reaches the objectives of requiring low capital investments and being more efficient than any of the other processes available.

Process

Nowadays the term "continuous culture" is applied to almost every process involving passage of fluids through some sort of reactor system in which they are exposed to microbiological action in a steady state manner.

In Continuous Process, work is continuously fed to a pre-fermenter where it is mixed with yeast and where air is sparged. The mixture feeds an agitated fermenter or a set of parallel linked fermenter with constant operational volume, establishing a definite residence time. The fermented wort is continuously pumped from fermenter (s) to centrifugal separator(s) where it is divided into yeast free (centrifuged work) and yeast concentrated streams. The yeast concentrated steam is recirculated to pre-fermenter and may not have its pH corrected before return to the fermenter. The centrifuged work is then sent to distillation.

Advantages

a) The use of the Continuous Process as compared to that of other fermentation processes leads to many economical as well as operational benefits.
b) Lower space and equipment requirements leading to lower capital costs.
c) Simple operation and process control when compared to batch process or to the continuous cascade process/ semi continuous.
d) Possibility of using simple automation devices.
e) Ethanol production 1.95 times faster than the melle-boinot system.

Main Characteristics

• Higher fermentation Efficiency.

• Higher Productivity (upto 10G Ethanol/litre Fermenter /H)

• Due to yeast recirculation and mechanical agitation of the Fermentation Medium, and to the fact that conditions do not change with time, The fermentation medium is highly homogenous throughout the entire system.

• Suitable control of contamination in the Fermentation medium, due to low fermentation time and high yeast concentration inside the fermenter.

• Possibility of using conventional yeast as well as other selected strains.

• Flexibility to run in batch mode when necessary.

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