MÉTODO PARA PULVERIZAR OU DESINTEGRAR CANA DE AÇÚCAR, E, APARELHO PARA DESINTEGRAR CANA DE AÇÚCAR

摘要

The invention provides a method of pulverising or disintegrating sugar cane using a jet of liquid at a pressure of above 10 MPa. The liquid may be water or an aqueous medium. The invention extends to an apparatus for disintegrating sugar cane, said apparatus including a liquid supply system capable of supplying liquid at a pressure of at least 10 MPa pressure for a direct jet or lower for a pulsed jet, an array of nozzles that span the width of the mat fed into the path of the jets, one or more sugar cane presentation means for presenting sugar cane for disintegration by the jet of high pressure liquid, and slurry recovery means for recovering a mixture of liquid and disintegrated sugar cane for further processing.