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Distillery is down stream industry of Sugar. Alcohol or
Ethyl Alcohol is
produced from molasses which is by-product while
manufacturing sugar. It is produced in Distillery
through the process of fermentation and
Distillation. It has purity of about 95% vv.
The Ethyl Alcohol is sold by the company which is used in
manufacture of potable liquor. It has got other uses
also like in paint, varnishes, pharmaceuticals and
other chemical industry. When Ethyl Alcohol is
further dehydrated and made about 99.9% purity it is
called Ethanol, which is used in admixing with
Petrol.
Riga Sugar Co. Ltd set-up Alcohol Plant (50 KLPD) in 1995
adjacent to its Sugar Factory which produces over
50,000 liters of Alcohol per day. The molasses
is partly transferred from own sugar plant and
partly procured from other sugar factories of Bihar
state.
The Distillery of the company has got Zero Discharge facilities as per CPCB
norms. The company have Anaerobic-Digesters, which
treat the Raw spent wash which is followed by
Reverse Osmosis Technology and Bio-composting. Thus
the entire solid waste generation in sugar and
liquid generation in Distillery is used to produce
economically valued and environment friendly
Bio-compost. The
treatment of spend wash though digester generates
Bio-gas Methane which has fuel value and used in
Boiler for steam and power.
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