De Smet Engineers & Contractors (DSEC) is moving its headquarters to the address below, a few kilometres away from our current location; therefore, our offices will be unreachable from Friday 31st August to Monday 3rd September at 08:30 a.m.
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Thanks to its own sugar know-how, DSEC specialized in sugar plants EPC construction. The company acquired its expertise through the realization of many projects, ranging from audits of existing installations up to the turnkey construction of new industrial complexes. As for its other activities, DSEC is able to execute sugar related projects under the form of full EPC contracts, being familiar with all aspects of the project's implementation. DSEC not only masters specific sugar techniques and technologies but also all related process auxiliaries, civil works, steel structures, installation works, start-up and commissioning activities, including training of the client's personnel. DSEC’s project design and construction management gives paramount importance to the respect of health and safety and environment norms as well as to technical efficiency and ease of operation. The monitoring of project cost, time schedule and performances is the essence of any EPCM or EPC commitment. DSEC has developed proprietary technological and thermodynamic programs that very accurately simulate the operation of plants, from overall Heat & Mass Balances down to unitary process operations. In terms of drawings, DSEC uses a powerful 3D drawing and construction management tool (SmartPlan®) that dramatically improves material purchasing activity and site installation efficiency through a high level of prefabrication works. The importance of cogeneration and energy saving concepts has deeply changed the design of sugar plants construction and refineries over the last thirty years. DSEC is particularly proud of the results obtained in plants that have been built or upgraded in accordance with its studies and recommendations. DSEC’s independence from equipment suppliers and technology providers allows selecting the best possible technical solutions with a view of optimizing performances, energy recovery, maintenance and cost to the benefit of any project. In addition to state-of-the-art projects, DSEC’s engineering skills combined with agro process know-how have been selected by major players for developing large scale industrial units from laboratory developments and pilot plants. The projected increase in world sugar demand of 100 million tons over the next 15 years makes De Smet Engineers & Contractor’s knowhow in sugar plants EPC construction extremely valuable for the market.
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De Smet Engineers & Contractors’ expertise in beet sugar starts at the beets reception yard, including feedstock analysis, storage, handling, washing and slicing before Sugar extraction of the juice by diffusion. DSEC pays particular attention to agronomic specificities, climatic and local environmental aspects so as to optimize the installation performances. DSEC plays an important role in the definition of the most appropriate type of diffuser, often preceded by a prescalder (juice-cossettes heat exchanger) and also selects the best available technology to be applied for juice purification - with or without decalcification - as well as the selection of units such as milk of lime preparation and anhydrous carbonic gas production. Further to diffusion, the juice has to be filtered and processed into syrup in a multiple effects evaporation installation. This syrup is then treated in the crystallization unit that generates sugar and allows concentrating the remaining impurities in the molasses. DSEC’s simulation program is of paramount importance at this stage so as to define the most efficient energy set-up as well as to precisely size any single equipment of the line.
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Cane sugar is produced by means of technologies rather similar to those used in a beet sugar plant that are also fully mastered by DSEC. Sugar cane is however a totally different plant compared to sugar beet: whereas sugar beet is sowed and can be harvested after +/- 6 months, cane takes longer to grow but grows back after it has been cut and can therefore be harvested several consecutive years (4 to 6) before being replanted. Cane can be cut either manually or mechanically before being directly processed in the mill. Cane plantation location in relation of the plant is of paramount importance so as to reduce sugar losses by the degradation of the plant after cutting as well as to minimize logistic costs. DSEC will select the most appropriate methodology for extracting the juice from the cane after its first shredding. The extraction operation will be performed using mill tandem or cane diffusion while additional mills will press the residual solid (bagasse) in order to increase its fiber content while additional mills will press the residual solid (bagasse) in order to increase its fiber content. Pressed bagasse will be used as fuel for the plant combined heat and power generation that will generally export electricity on the public grid. The choice between mill tandem and diffuser will be highly dependent on plant capacity, cane characteristics, expected extraction performances and plant general concept.
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DSEC has dedicated special attention to the design of sugar refinery EPC construction with particular emphasis on energetic efficiency and white sugar quality. A considerable portion of the sugar market is located in areas where neither beet nor cane can be cultivated. Such markets can be fed by large bulk ships with raw cane sugar that needs to be further refined before being commercialized. As the quality of the raw sugar available on the international market varies considerably depending on its origin, DSEC has developed alternative concepts to adapt the refinery design to the feedstock to be processed. The selected alternative for a refined sugar production will be defined after contemplating the necessity of a raw sugar affination (washing) step before the mandatory re-melting operation. Different purification or possibly decoloration technologies will also be analyzed by DSEC so as to optimize capital expenditures in function of feedstock and finished products as well as of the local environment.
Request for a quoteDe Smet Engineers & Contractors is an internationally renowned Belgian industrial factory supplier specializing in the agro industry and in particular in the sugar, vegetable oil, biofuels and green chemistry sectors, to which it provides integrated engineering, equipment procurement and construction services as a single contract. DSEC is your preferred partner for DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION in the following areas: - sugar and bioethanol: sugar plants, sugar refineries, sugar diffusion, ethanol and energy plants from Biomass.- Vegetable oil and flour: vegetable oil extraction and refining unit, Biodiesel-Bio Products production plants: Biochemical complexes and Agrochemical production plants: Fertilizer and plant health product production plants. Visit our website and contact us for further details.
De Smet Engineers & Contractors (DSEC) is moving its headquarters to the address below, a few kilometres away from our current location; therefore, our offices will be unreachable from Friday 31st August to Monday 3rd September at 08:30 a.m.
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Watson & Crick Hill - Building J - Rue Granbonpré 11 Box 8
1435 Mont-Saint-Guibert - Belgium
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