DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE BAGASSE ANALYSIS SYSTEM USING NIR SPECTROSCOPY

THIS PAPER describes the development of an online NIR-based Bagasse Analysis System (BAS) at the Mulgrave Central Mill. It includes performance statistics in calibration and validation for equations developed and describes the electronic linking of a cane analysis system (CAS) with the bagasse system to calculate milling train pol extraction in real time. It also describes the development of NIR calibrations for bagasse calorific value and presents statistics describing the accuracy and precision of these calculated values.