Manufacturers, Exporters, Suppliers of Flocculant in India

Innovacorp manufactures anionic, cationic, and non-ionic polyacrylamide flocculants for sugar juice clarification and industrial effluent treatment. In a sugar mill, the flocculant is what decides how fast the mud settles, how clear the juice comes off the clarifier, and how much sucrose is lost in the filter cake. The right polymer changes all three. The wrong one, or the right one dosed badly, changes none of them.

Why Flocculation Matters in Sugar Processing

Sugar juice comes out of the clarifier carrying fine suspended matter — fibre, soil, colloidal impurities, and precipitated calcium salts from liming. If these particles don't gather into large, dense flocs, they settle slowly, carry juice with them into the mud, and leave the clarified juice turbid. Anyone who has run a clarifier through a crushing season knows that a marginal flocculant shows up first as slower settling, then as higher mud volume, and finally as sucrose loss in the filter cake. Flocculant chemistry is one of the few places in the sugar process where a small dose change can move recovery numbers.

Where Our Flocculants Are Used

• Primary juice clarification: anionic polyacrylamide dosed into the flash or clarifier inlet to accelerate settling and compact the mud.
• Rotary Vacuum Filters (RVF): supports filter cake porosity and reduces sucrose carried out with the mud.
• Syrup and melt clarification: selected grades for refinery and melt liquor polishing where clarity is critical.
• Effluent treatment (ETP): cationic grades for sludge dewatering and secondary clarifier performance.
• Boiler and cooling water: clarification of makeup water where suspended solids are high.

Types We Manufacture

• Anionic polyacrylamide (APAM): standard grade for sugar juice clarification; high molecular weight for larger floc formation.
• Cationic polyacrylamide (CPAM): used for sludge dewatering in ETP and for negatively charged suspensions.
• Non-ionic polyacrylamide (NPAM): for process conditions where charge-neutral behaviour is preferred.
• Powder and emulsion forms: powder for standard dosing, emulsion for plants that prefer liquid handling.

Specifications

Property	Typical Value
Appearance	White granular powder
Chemistry	Anionic / Cationic / Non-ionic Polyacrylamide
Molecular weight	High (grade dependent)
Charge density	Grade dependent; confirmed on TDS
Moisture content	< 10%
pH (0.1% solution)	6.0 – 8.0
Shelf life	24 months in unopened original packing

Final specification is confirmed after a jar test on your juice or effluent sample.

Application and Dosage

Dosage depends on juice quality, liming practice, clarifier design, and the flocculant grade. Typical starting ranges:

• Sugar juice clarification: 1–5 ppm on juice, prepared as a 0.1% solution and dosed into the flash or clarifier inlet.
• RVF filter feed: 0.5–3 ppm on mud, adjusted to filter cake porosity.
• ETP sludge dewatering: 5–50 ppm on dry solids, confirmed on jar test.
• Makeup water clarification: 0.5–2 ppm on flow, grade selected by turbidity source.

These are starting points. Final dose is set after a jar test on your sample and a plant trial on your clarifier.

Packing

• 25 kg HDPE bags with inner liner
• 500 kg jumbo bags

Key Benefits

• Supports faster settling of mud in the clarifier, which helps reduce mud volume and carryover.
• Helps improve clarified juice clarity and reduce turbidity in the treated juice.
• Supports filter cake porosity on RVF, which reduces sucrose loss with the mud.
• Works across a range of juice conditions and cane varieties when the grade is selected correctly.
• Available in anionic, cationic, and non-ionic forms to match the charge of the stream.

Technical Support

Flocculant selection is not a catalogue decision. The right grade depends on the charge of the particles in your juice or effluent, and the dose depends on your clarifier and residence time. We work with your process and lab team to run jar tests, select the grade, and fix a starting dose that you can confirm on the plant. Jar test support is available PAN India.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Which polymer is used for juice clarification in sugar mills?

Anionic polyacrylamides are typically used for sugar juice clarification because they help form larger flocs that settle faster and produce a more compact mud. Cationic grades are usually selected for effluent treatment and sludge dewatering rather than juice clarification.

2. What is the difference between anionic and cationic flocculants?

Anionic flocculants carry a negative charge and are used where suspended particles are positively charged — common in sugar juice clarification. Cationic flocculants carry a positive charge and are used for negatively charged suspensions such as biological sludge in ETP.

3. What dosage of flocculant is used in sugar juice clarification?

Typical starting dose is 1–5 ppm on juice, prepared as a 0.1% solution and dosed into the flash or clarifier inlet. Final dose depends on juice quality, liming, and clarifier design, and is confirmed on a plant trial.

4. How should flocculant powder be prepared before dosing?

Flocculant powder should be dispersed slowly into water under gentle agitation to make a 0.1% to 0.5% stock solution. High shear or fast addition damages the polymer chain and reduces performance. The stock solution is then diluted to the dosing concentration before use.

Request a Quote

Share your juice or effluent sample details — turbidity, pH, suspended solids, and clarifier type — and our technical team will recommend a flocculant grade and a starting dose. Call +91-9312871070 to discuss your application.