Research Article
Energy and Productivity Yield Assessment of a Traditional Furnace for Noncentrifugal Brown Sugar (Panela) Production
Table 1
Performance indices used to assess the traditional furnace.
| | Performance indices | Equation |
| | Energy efficiency (%) | | | Exergy efficiency (%) | | | Energy loss through the chimney (%) | | | Yield (kgpanela/kgbagasse) | | | Productivity (kgpanela/h) | | | Bagasse consumption (kgbagasse consumed/kgproduced bagasse) | |
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