The Sugar producers have realized that they need to concentrate more on the unharnessed potentials of the power generation within the plant to make sugar production a profitable proposition. For maximum production it is essential that uninterrupted power is available and the load on all the turbines is shared in the same proposition as the generating capacities of individual turbine. This will ensure that all the turbines will share any sudden load coming in the system and no individual turbine will get overloaded. This will have an added advantage to sugar plants that they need not keep the safety margins of 10% on individual turbine for sudden loads as this will now be shared by all turbine. This effectively means that on an average adopting the load-sharing concept will make each sugar plants utilize 500 to 600 KW of energy, which they normally keep as safety margins for sudden loads. This has ensured that the upcoming new plants are being designed under this consideration that all turbines will share load and if required they can/ will have an integrated COGEN plant and will export the surplus power to the grid. For this it is essential that each turbine has an electronic governor minimum 505/505E). What is important is that the number of new plants coming up is comparatively very small to the existing plants. What the existing sugar plants need to do, to ensure that they are able to share the load on all existing turbines is to upgrade the existing governing with electronic governor. Here in this article we suggest certain changes that are required to be carried out by existing sugar plants in order to integrate themselves with the changing requirements and the plants needs.
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