Cuba invests to take advantage of the straw like fuel

Cuba undertook the use of the straw like fuel for the sugar boilers of power stations, in order to diminish the consumption of fuel oil.

The Ministry of the Sugar cared machines that pick up, heap and pack the residual, in this case of the cane, in the fields after the crop or in the reception centers and benefit of the gramineous , in tests in five counties.

Orlando Gutiérrez, of the area of mechanization of the agroindustrial company Argentina, of the county of Camagüey, said that the exams have given good results in the conformation of pacas of 250 kilograms.

The mechanical Ángel Ramírez who received preparation for the use, arrangement and maintenance of the new apparatuses, informed that with enough available straw the compacted can make a bundle every minute and half.

As complement to this investment settle mills to crush the renewable fuel in the geniuses that benefit of the work of the packers.

Adam Galbán, director from the central Argentina, which produces raw sugar and refine, manifested that in harvest time the straw mixes with the residual trash of the one milled of the cane to supply to the ovens.

Specified that when is only in the one whitened of the candy, the time is shared with the consumption of fuel oil.

In Camagüey the industry Ignacio Agramonte, equally refinator, also mounted a station of trituration of the straw of the cane.

With a humidity of 30 percent, that renewable fuel removes more heat than the trash when leaves the mills, and a material ton of this last one is comparable to the caloric energy toasted by 190 liters of fuel oil. (Lucilo Tejera Díaz)