Quarterly News Letter Volume 4, Issue 12, 29th September 2018

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1 Quarterly News Letter Volume 4, Issue 12, 29th September 2018 From the Desk of President Dear Members, Greetings, The Sugar Technologists Association of India successfully organized its flagship event - 76 th Annual Convention and International Sugar Expo 2018 at the state-of-theart Brilliant Convention Centre, Indore, Madhya Pradesh from August 2018 which was attended by nearly 800 delegates from India and abroad. On behalf of the Council of The Sugar Technologists Association of India, I express my most sincere gratitude to the members of the Association, delegates, sponsors, exhibitors & service providers for not only attending the Convention in large numbers but also making it a grand success and a memorable one. The Indian sugar industry is set to close the season with the highest ever sugar production of Million Tonnes. As per advance estimates, India s sugar output for the season is going to be record 35 MT. India is thus set to replace Brazil as the largest sugar producing country. The industry will commence the sugar season with a carry over stock of 10.5 MT. With an estimated sugar production of 35 MT in , after meeting the domestic consumption of about 26 MT, there will be a huge surplus of 19.5 MT of sugar in the country. To mitigate the crisis, the Govt. of India has initiated several measures including incentivizing ethanol production and export of sugar. To boost the ethanol blending programme, the Govt. of India has recently increased the ethanol procurement price as follows: Feedstock Cane Juice B-Heavy Molasses C-Heavy Molasses Old Price Rs./Lit New Price Rs./Lit Mr Sanjay Awasthi, President, STAI STAI has always been propogating that for viable and sustainable business, the industry should produce quality refined sugar both for the domestic and international markets and convert their units to integrated sugar complexes and utilize all the available resources like fibre, energy, fertilizer, water and minerals aptly. I wish a successful sugarcane crushing season and advance greetings for the Dusherra and Dipawali to all our members. SANJAY AWASTHI Inside this issue: Shri Suresh Kumar Vashisht, IAS,Joint Secretary (Sugar & Admin), Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India inaugurating the 76th STAI Annual Convention Highlights : 76th Convention Inaugural Session Gundurao Memorial Lecture Plenary Session Technical Sessions International Sugar Expo List of Exhibitors List of Sponsors New STAI Council: st ICUMSA Session Members Corner

2 Page 2 76 th STAI Annual Convention held at Indore : Highlights of the Inaugural Session held on 20 th August 2018 Dignitaries on the dais : Chief Guest - Shri Suresh Kumar Vashisht, IAS, Joint Secretary( Sugar & Admin), Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Govt. of India Guests of Honour - Mr. Bimal Kumar Dubey, IAS, M.D. U.P Cooperative Sugar Factories Federation Ltd. Ms. K.Karpakam, IAS, M.D., Dharmapuri District Cooperative Sugar Mills Distinguished Guests : Mr. Narendra Mohan, Director, National Sugar Institute, Kanpur Mr. Shivajirao Deshmukh, Director General, Vasantdada Sugar Institute Mr. Abhyuday Jindal, M.D., Jindal Stainless STAI Life Time Achievement Awards STAI Life Time Achievement awards for the year 2018 were conferred to: Mr. Kailashchand Lakhmichand Goyal, Director, Shree Durga Group Mr. D.S. Bhamare, C.E.O, Sitson India Private Ltd. Mr. Prakash Naiknavare, Managing Director, National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories Mr. P.S. Sankarnarayan, Director, Avant-Garde Engineers and Consultants Pvt. Ltd. Mr. A.K. Jain, Managing Director, Namokar Enterprises Mr. K.K. Kohli, Senior Fellow Member, STAI Pravasi Bhartiya Award Mr Kaushik C Pabari, Director, Kwale International Sugar Co. Ltd in recognition of his services to sugar and allied industry in Kenya. Industry Excellence Awards STAI Industry Excellence Awards for the year 2018 were conferred to : Mr. Vivek Maheshwari, Promoter & Director, Maheshwari Group of Sugar Industries, Madhya Pradesh Mr. Kunal Yadav, Managing Director, Indian Sucrose Ltd. Dr. Atul Suresh Bhosale, Promoter Jaywant Sugars Ltd and Minister of State Rank Govt. of Maharashtra Mr. R.L. Tamak, Executive Director (Sugar), DSCL Sugar Dr. R.C. Saroha, Distillery Manager, Panipat Cooperative Distillery Ms. Mansi Agarwal, Vice President, Risansi Industries Ltd. J P Mukerjee Gold Medal Mr OP Mishra, General Manager- Technical, Triveni Engineering and Industries Limited was conferred JPMA Gold Medal for Best Engineer of the Year 2018 Isgec Gold Medal Mr Anup Kesarwani, Director, Chemical Systems Technologies was conferred Isgec Gold Medal Engineering for Excellence (Process Technology) Mr D Swain, Professor, Sugar Engineering, National Sugar Institute, Kanpur was conferred Isgec Gold Medal-Engineering for Excellence (Process Engineering) Dr. Bansidhar Gold Medal Mr J K Kharbanda and Mr K P Vasanthan were conferred Dr Bansidhar Gold Medal (Innovation in the Area of Energy Efficiency and Conservation) for their paper on Innovative Design Improvements in Milling Tandem for Energy Efficiency and Ease of Maintenance presented during 75th Annual Convention. Mr Kaushik C Pabari receiving Life Time Achievement Award (Pravasi Bhartiya) from the Chief Guest Mr K K Kohli receiving Life Time Achievement Award from the Guest of Honour

3 Page 3 76 th STAI Annual Convention held at Indore : Highlights of the Inaugural Session held on 20 th August 2018 (Contd.) The authors of the best papers presented in the 75th STAI Annual Convention 2017 were conferred following medals: (Top From L-R) Recipients of Noel Deerr Gold Medals for the Agriculture, Factory Engineering and Factory Processing Sections (Bottom From L-R) Recipients of Noel Deerr Gold Medals for the Co Products Section which was shared by two papers (Top From L-R) Recipients of STAI Silver Medals for the Agriculture and Factory Engineering Sections (Bottom From L-R) Recipients of STAI Silver Medals for the Factory Processing and Co Products Sections

4 Page 4 76 th STAI Annual Convention held at Indore : Highlights of the Inaugural Session held on 20 th August 2018 (Contd.) Following publications were released by the Chief Guest during inaugural session STAI Publications Proceedings of the 76 th Annual Convention Souvenir of the 76th Annual Convention List of Cane Sugar Factories in India and SAARC countries, Refineries & Distilleries in India, Nepal & Bhutan for the year Book titled Ganna Satat Utpadan by Dr. Priyanka Singh, Dr. Sanjeev Pathak and Dr. Ajay Tiwari Joint Study by Jindal Stainless, J.P. Mukherji and Associates and The Sugar Technologists Association of India on Stainless Steel a wonder Metal to Combat Corrosion and Optimizing Life Time Value of Equipment for Sugar Industry Release of the Souvenir by the Chief Guest during the Inaugural Session of the 76th STAI Convention Release of the Book Ganna Satat Utpadan by the Chief Guest during the Inaugural Session Release of the Joint Study by JSL, JPMA and STAI by the Chief Guest during the Inaugural Session S.N. Gundurao Memorial Lecture The coveted lecture was delivered by Mr Abinash Verma, Director General, Indian Sugar Mills Association on Government Policies on Sugar Sector. The S.N. Gundurao Memorial Lecture session was chaired by Prof. Narendra Mohan, Director, NSI Kanpur and Co-Chaired by Mr Sanjay Awasthi, President, STAI (Left) Mr Abinash Verma delivering S N Gundu Rao Memorial Lecture (Right) Mr Vinay Kumar, Patron Member, STAI presenting memento to Mr Abinash Verma

5 Page 5 Highlights :Plenary Session held on 21st August 2018 A Plenary Session was organized during the convention on 21st August The Session was chaired by Mr. Prakash Naiknavare, Managing Director, National Federation of Coop Sugar Factories Ltd., (NFCSF) and co chaired by Mr. E Muthuvelappan, President, SISSTA. The following presentations were made : Mangal Singh Memorial Lecture Out of Box by Mr. Sunil Singhal, President, Chemical Systems Technologies (I) Pvt Ltd. Plenary Lecture 1 Sustainability Challenges in Indian Sugar by Mr. R.L. Tamak, Executive Director (Sugar), DSCL Sugar Plenary Lecture 2 Results of the field study conducted by Jindal Stainless, JPMA and STAI on use of stainless steel to reduce life cycle costs by Mr Rajeev Gupta, General Manager, Jindal Stainless Top (L-R) : (Left Picture )Mr Sunil Singhal. Mr Prakash Naiknavare, Mr E Muthuvelappan, Mr R L Tamak, Mr Rajeev Gupta seated on Dais. (Right Picture) Mr Tamak delivering the Plenary Lecture-1 Bottom :(L-R) (Left Picture) Mr Sunil Singhal delivering the Mangal Singh Memorial Lecture (Right Picture) Mr Rajeev Gupta delivering the Plenary Lecture-2 Technology Providers Session The session was chaired by Mr K K Kohli, Senior Fellow Member and Co-chaired by Mr K P Singh, Group Head (Operations), Balrampur Chini Mills and Mr Anup Kesarwani, Vice President, STAI. 8 presentations were made during the sessions on latest technological innovations in sugar & allied industries by the Technology Providers. Cultural Evening Organizing Cultural Evening has become synonymous with the Convention. Mr Ehsaan Qureshi, Stand-up Comedian along with his team enthralled the delegates with his two hours long performance and presented a number of audience interactive fun items. (L-R) Mr K P Singh, Mr K K Kohli, Mr Anup Kesarwani Mr Ehsaan Qureshi, performing during 76th Annual Convention

6 Page 6 Highlights :Technical Sessions held on 21st & 22nd August research papers were published in the proceedings of the 76th Annual Convention, out of which 50 papers were presented in the following sessions: Agriculture Session 24 papers were presented by researchers / factory engineers/sugar technologists on milling, equipment maintenance, energy conservation, water management refined sugar manufacture, process optimization, juice clarification etc. The session was chaired by Dr J.P. Singh, Chief Cane Adviser, NFCSF & co-chaired by Dr R S Hapase, Head and Principal Scientist (Plant Breeding), VSI, Pune. 14 papers were presented by scientists/sugarcane professionals on varietal improvement, crop protection, extension mechanization etc., during the session. (L-R )Dr J P Singh and Dr R S Hapase presenting Certificate of Presentation to Dr R Gomathi, Principal Scientist, SBI Coimbatore during the Agriculture Session. Factory Session This year also, Factory Engineering and Factory Processing sections were merged into a common Factory Session in which alternate papers from engineering and processing section were taken for presentation. The Session 1 was chaired by Mr S M Sharma, Vice President, STAI and co chaired by Mr M K Biswas, Senior Member, STAI ;Session 2 was chaired by Mr R V Vatnal, Group Technical Adviser, Nirani Group of Industries and co chaired by Mr P S Srivastava, Managing Director, Enmill Technologies; Session 3 was chaired by Mr D Swain, Prof. of Sugar Engineering, NSI and co chaired by Dr. V.P. Sidanale, Senior Sugar Technologist, VSI, Pune. Top (L-R) Mr Anoop Singh, VP (Projects), DSCL receiving certificate of presentation from Mr G D Patil,CEO, JLNS Sugar during Factory Session 2 Bottom (L-R) Mr D Swain, Chairman and Dr V P Sidanale, Co Chairman presenting certificate of presentation to Mr V M Kulkarni, MD, V M Biotech during Factory Session-3 Co Products & Management Session The Co-products and Management session was chaired by Mr C N Deshpande, President, Jaywant Sugars and co-chaired by Mr D M Raskar, CEO, Shreenath Mhaskoba SSK.11 papers were presented by researchers/ professionals on ZLD (zero liquid discharge), optimizing ethanol production, general management etc., during the session. Mr M K Biswas presenting certificate of presentation to Mr Harkirat Singh, AGM (Production), Daurala Sugar Works during Factory Session 1 (L-R) Mr S M Sharma, Mr M K Biswas, Mr Harkirat Singh Mr C N Deshpande, Chairman and Mr D M Raskar, Co Chairman with Paper presenters for the Co Products and Management Session

7 Page 7 Highlights: International Sugar Expo 2018, August 2018 In conjunction with the 76th STAI Convention, International Sugar Expo 2018 was also organized wherein 62 technology providers including turn-key plant suppliers, SMEs, consultants etc. from India and abroad showcased their latest innovations, products & services, for the sugar and allied industry. The Sugar Expo witnessed a large number of visitors from the senior management of Sugar Industry, scientific fraternity and R&D institutes.over the years the convention and sugar expo has emerges as the most potent forum for showcasing of new technologies, exchange of ideas and a bellwether for the Indian Sugar Industry. Shri Suresh Kumar Vashisht, Chief Guest inaugurating the International Sugar Expo and taking round of the Exhibition Exhibitors of the International Sugar Expo Abhitech Energycon 2. Alfa Laval India 3. Alpha Control Instruments 4. Avant Garde Systems and Controls 5. Bajaj Power Equipments 6. BMA 7. Calsens 8. Carl Bechem Lubricants 9. Catalysts Biotechnologies 10. Chemical Centre (India) 11. Clair Engineers 12. Cloud Tech 13. CNH Industrial (India) 14. Crane Process Flow Technologies 15. Danfoss Industries 16. Del Control 17. Dow Chemical International 18. Elann Drive & Automation 19. Enmill Technologies 20. Enviropol Engineers 21. Essen Welding Alloys 22. EWAC Alloys 23. Excel Engineers and Consultants 24. Fives Cail-KCP 25. Galaxy Industrial Equipment 26. Galaxy Sivetek 27. Gita Pumps India 28. IMCO Alloys 29. Indiana Sucro-tech (Pune) 30. Indo Pump 31. Ion Exchange 32. ISGEC Heavy Engineering 33. J.P. Mukherji & Associates 34. Jindal Stainless 35. Kirloskar Brothers 36. Kluber Lubrication India 37. Lubgraf Synoils 38. Mega Engineering 39. Membrane Group India 40. Netzsch Technologies 41. Paras Bhavani Steel 42. PPI Pumps/ PPI System 43. Premium Transmission 44. Privilege Biksons Boilers 45. PSP Pumps 46. Puri Industries 47. Qualilub Specialty Lubricants India 48. Reggiana Riduttori, Italy 49. Rhewum India 50. Risansi Industries 51. S.B. Reshellers 52. Shrijee Process Engineering Works 53. Sintech Precision Products 54. Sitson India 55. SKF India 56. Suzalkem Technologies 57. Tata Steels 58. Technical Drying Services (Asia) 59. Technotrak Chains & Conveyor Systems 60. Three Star Engineering Works 61. VRL Automation Engineering & Projects 62. Yes Enterprises

8 Page 8 Sponsors : 76th Annual Convention The Sugar Technologists Association of India would like to thank all the following esteemed sponsors for their valuable support in making the 76th Annual Convention a grand success. STAI firmly believes in the principle of growing through partnerships and hopes that our relationship with sponsors will grow from strength to strength in years to come.

9 Page 9 New Council of STAI for the period The General Elections for the STAI Council for the period were successfully conducted this year. The newly elected Council took charge on 21st of August 2018 after the conclusion of the Annual General Body Meeting. The first meeting of the council was held on 21 August 2018 which finalized the names of Hon. Treasurer and Hon. Editor.The following are the members of the newly constituted Council : President Mr Sanjay Awasthi Vice Presidents (Elected) Mr G Venkateshwara Rao Mr Anup Kesarwani Mr A K Malik Mr P K Belsare Vice Presidents (Ex-Offico) Prof. Narendra Mohan Mr E Muthuvelappan Mr Mansingrao Jadhav Hon. Editor Hon. Treasurer Secretary General Mr D K Goel Mr Anup Kesarwani Mr Amit Khatter Council Members (Elected) Dr Bakshi Ram Mr A K Awasthi Mr S K Srivastava Mr A H Patel Mr B S Hooda Mr Pradeep Tyagi Mr B R Jadhav Mr D M Raskar Dr V P Sidnale Mr Alok Saxena Mr Yogesh Malik Mr E Muthuvelappan Mr R V Vatnal Mr S K Ohri Mr Anurag Goyal Mr Kuldeep Kumar Mr Sudulgunta Krishna Kalyan Kumar Council Members (Co-opted) Dr S Solomon Mr G V Chaturvedi Special Invitees Mr Abinash Verma Mr Prakash Naiknavare Dr Bakshi Ram Mr Shivajirao Deshmukh Dr A D Pathak Mr Suresh Kumar Vashishth Members of the newly elected STAI Council along with the STAI staff members

10 Page 10 31st Session of ICUMSA,26-29 August 2018, South Africa 31st Session of ICUMSA was held at Kruger National Park, South Africa during 26th to 29th August Dr. (Mrs.) V. S. Keskar and Dr. S. S. Nimbalkar attended this session on behalf of the Indian National Committee. During this session Dr. Geoff Perkin (UK) stepped down from the President ship of ICUMSA. In his farewell address, while taking the review of contributions made by Referees during his tenure of 12 years as a President, he specifically highlighted the work done by Dr. Keskar in development of plantation white sugar subject and methods of analysis. As recognition of her achievement, President felicitated her as Best Referee with a memento. On the basis of report of GS9 presented by Dr. Keskar, two important decisions were taken by ICUMSA. 1) The ICP/MS method for analysis of metal elements in sugar, which was validated in Maarc Labs, is accepted as a ICUMSA method. (For analysis of heavy metals as per requirement of FSSAI, this method will be suitable). 2) Changes in colour method No. 8 (MOPS buffer) recommended by Dr. Keskar for making it applicable to all types of sugars were accepted by the meeting and accordingly the method will be redrafted. Felicitation of Dr. Keskar by Dr. Geoff Perkin Other Activities Members Corner The Sugar Technologists of Association of India is recognized as Scientific and Industrial Research Organization by Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India under the Scheme on Recognition of Scientific and Industrial Research Organisations (SIROs),1988. The association once again has been accorded Renewal of Recognition from upto This was only possible due to the outstanding efforts of Shri D K Goel, Hon. Editor and Mr Anup Kesarwani, Vice President STAI, who jointly made an excellent presentation at DSIRO. Forthcoming Events The Sugar Technologists Association of India (STAI) in association with National Sugar Institute, Kanpur is organizing All India One Day Joint Seminar on Techno-Economic Viability of Sugarcane Juice or B-Heavy Molasses as Alternate Feedstock for Ethanol Production" on Tuesday, 16th October 2018 at National Sugar Institute, Kanpur. Members are requested to participate/ nominate other professionals from your organization to participate and benefit from the technical deliberations of this important seminar. The proceedings of 76th Annual Convention are being dispatched to the valid members. Proceedings to members in arrears - Associate/Fellow/ Companion/SME for the year 2017 have not been sent. They are requested to clear their dues to enable us to send copy of proceedings & Factory list. For the benefit of the members, STAI has also initiated Payment Gateway for online payment of membership dues. Alternatively, members can also send the membership subscription through cheque/dd in favour of The Sugar Technologists Association of India For online payment: The Sugar Technologists Association of India, HDFC Bank SB A/C No , RTGS/NEFT IFSC CODE : HDFC , Okhla Phase-I, New Delhi- 20 Hon. Editor : Mr D K Goel Secretary General : Mr Amit Khatter Published by: The Sugar Technologists Assciation Association of of India India Plot No. 15, 301, Aggarwal Okhla Plaza, Community Centre, Okhla Phase 1 New Delhi , Phone: ,31,32, office@staionline.org,