Thin Stillage Fractionation to Improve Water Recycling Rates and Heat Transfer Characteristics in the Corn Dry Grind Process

We considered application of optimization to the design and operation of a continuous microfiltration (MF) system for the corn dry grind process. Total area requirement decreased with number of stages but there was tradeoff between higher capital costs involved at higher number of stages. Optimal system also showed potential to process more than twice the amount of thin stillage compared to quadruple effect evaporator system for given conditions.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Arora, Amit

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rausch, Kent D.

• Engineering, Agricultural

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3362719

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86077