Background

Usually imbibition water is hot condenstate from the process house, often contaminated with sugar and not suitable for boiler feed water. This hot condenstae is too hot for imbibition duty, for two reasons;

• hot imbibition releases waxes from the canes causing the mills to slip
• during the winter months hot imbibtion can cause clouds of mist in the mill house which reduces visibility (a safety hazard)

This hot condensate must be cooled before it can be used as imbibition. The obvious product to cool it against is the mixed juice from the mills. Hence a liquid liquid heater