SRA and QUT invite milling managers and staff to attend this year’s Regional Sugar Milling Research Seminar in their district. Each year SRA and partner, QUT, conduct these seminars to update sugar milling technical staff on progress and findings of SRA-funded milling research projects. Check out the program and RSVP today!

Program

8am-8.20am – Opening: SRA District Manager/R&BD team member

SRA District Manager – District Productivity Plan highlights

8.20am-8.40am – SRA Update 

Member of SRA Research & Business Development team 

8.40am-10.00am – QUT Update #1 

Geoff Kent, QUT 

• A simplified model of a boiler furnace to understand effects on grate temperatures and potential overheating events
• Bagasse fly ash system performance benchmarking
• Greenhouse gas emissions from sugar factory boilers
• Australian sugar industry training – development of factory training modules – Phase 3

10.00am-10.15am – MORNING TEA

10.15am-10.35am – Griffith Uni Update 

Barton Wixted & Rudi Bartels, Griffith University 

• Billet quality assessment

10.35am – 11.55am – QUT Update #2 

Geoff Kent & Darryn Rackemann, QUT 

• Use of machine learning to determine the extraneous matter and billet length in cane consignments
• ISSCT factory workshop report
• Towards further improvement in clarifier performance: evaluating juice and mud residence times
• Hybrid pH control strategies to reduce sucrose losses and control corrosion in sugar factory evaporators

11.55am-12.20pm – SRA Update 

Joel Simpson, SRA 

• Overview of NIR applications for the sugar industry

12.20pm-12.50pm – LUNCH

12.50pm – 1.10pm – QUT Update #3 

Darryn Rackemann, QUT

• Demonstrate the use of a microwave dry substance transducer for controlling high grade boilings

1.10pm-1.30pm – CDU Update – BUNDABERG, SOUTH JOHNSTONE & TOWNSVILLE ONLY

Stephen Xu, Charles Darwin University 

• Thermo-digester for rapid conversion of mill mud to green fertiliser

1.30pm-2.20pm- QUT Update #4

Darryn Rackemann & Geoff Kent, QUT 

• ISSCT co-products workshop report
• Overview

2.20pm – 2.40pm – OPEN DISCUSSION

2.40pm-2.45pm – CLOSE

Dates and locations

Mackay

8am – 3pm, Monday 24 March

Training room, Racecourse Mill

Condong

8am – 3pm, Friday 28 March

Meeting Room, Condong Mill

Bundaberg

8am – 3pm, Monday 31 March

Lakeside room, Millaquin Mill

South Johnstone

8am – 3pm, Thursday, 3 April

South Johnstone Bowls Club

Townsville PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE

8am – 3pm, Friday, 4 April

Rydges Southbank

STILL TAKING RSVPs for seminars not yet held.

Sugar milling technical staff who wish to attend should contact their managers who will be gathering RSVPs for your company.

For more information contact: Chris Walker cwalker@sugarresearch.com.au