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TABLE 44
VALUE OF ONE POUND OF MILL BAGASSE AT DIFFERENT EXTRACTIONS
1: Per Cent Extraction of Weight of Cane
2: Per Cent Moisture in Bagasse
3: Per Cent in Bagasse
4: Fuel Value, B. t. u.
5: Per Cent in Bagasse
6: Fuel Value, B. t. u.
7: Per Cent in Bagasse
8: Fuel Value, B. t. u.
9: Total Heat Developed per Pound of Bagasse
10: Heat Required to Evaporate Moisture[42]
11: Heat Available for Steam Generation
12: Pounds of Bagasse Equivalent to one Pound of Coal of 14,000 B. t. u.
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|| | | | | |B.t.u. Value per| ||
|| | | Fiber | Sugar |Molasses |Pound of Bagasse| ||
|| | +-----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----+-----+ ||
|| | | | | | | | | | | | ||
|| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 ||
|+---+-----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----+-----+----+|
|| BASED UPON CANE OF 12 PER CENT FIBER AND JUICE CONTAINING ||
||18 PER CENT OF SOLID MATTER. REPRESENTING TROPICAL CONDITIONS ||
|+---+-----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----+-----+----+|
||75 |42.64|48.00|3996|6.24|451 |3.12|217 |4664 |525 |4139 |3.38||
||77 |39.22|52.17|4343|5.74|414 |2.87|200 |4958 |483 |4475 |3.13||
||79 |35.15|57.14|4757|5.14|371 |2.57|179 |5307 |433 |4874 |2.87||
||81 |30.21|63.16|5258|4.42|319 |2.21|154 |5731 |372 |5359 |2.61||
||83 |24.12|70.59|5877|3.53|256 |1.76|122 |6255 |297 |5958 |2.35||
||85 |16.20|80.00|6660|2.40|173 |1.20| 83 |6916 |200 |6716 |2.08||
|+---+-----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----+-----+----+|
|| BASED UPON CANE OF 10 PER CENT FIBER AND JUICE CONTAINING ||
||15 PER CENT OF SOLID MATTER. REPRESENTING LOUISIANA CONDITIONS||
|+---+-----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----+-----+----+|
||75 |51.00|40.00|3330|6.00|433 |3.00|209 |3972 |678 |3294 |4.25||
||77 |48.07|43.45|3617|5.66|409 |2.82|196 |4222 |592 |3630 |3.86||
||79 |44.52|47.62|3964|5.24|378 |2.62|182 |4524 |548 |3976 |3.52||
||81 |40.18|52.63|4381|4.73|342 |2.36|164 |4887 |495 |4392 |3.19||
||83 |35.00|58.82|4897|4.12|298 |2.06|143 |5436 |431 |5005 |2.80||
||85 |28.33|66.67|5550|3.33|241 |1.67|116 |5907 |349 |5558 |2.52||
|+---+-----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+-----+----+-----+----+|
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