Jaggery Processing Plant

India has a tradition of processing sugarcane using small processing plants for manufacturing of unrefined sugar known as jaggery. As jaggery is an unrefined product, it retains its minerals like Iron, Calcium and Potassium and provides a healthy sweetener which is a substitute for refined sugar. The traditional jaggery processing plants have rudimentary and primitive plant design and operation. This leads to unhygienic processing and use of chemical additives. A process expert is required to manage and control the jaggery processing operations. The labor working in such plants are exposed to harsh working conditions and drudgery due to manual and continuous mixing, filtering and transferring liquids from one pan to another at high temperature. The evaporation furnace has low thermal efficiency leading to use of plastic, tyres, and other combustible waste.