Now the piles of damp bagasse burn slowly, and smoke like Satan's own kitchen.
Fill that whole region with an impenetrable gloom of smoke from a hundred miles of burning bagasse piles, when the river is over the banks, and turn a steamboat loose along there at midnight and see how she will feel.
When they have finished grinding the cane, they form the refuse of the stalks (which they call bagasse) into great piles and set fire to them, though in other sugar countries the bagasse is used for fuel in the furnaces of the sugar-mills.
At one time there was far more bagasse produced than the mills needed to burn and bagasse often became an environmental pollutant.
Bagasse is also used to make construction fiberboard for subwall and insulation.
Then, bagasse was available for nothing or next to nothing.
These days, larger, modern mills generate electricity with bagasse and sell their surplus to the local power grid.
Most sugar mills burn bagasseas their heat source to evaporate water out of the sugary juice squeezed from the canes.
Three samples of bagasse in which the ash is assumed to be 3 per cent give from the formula: F = 50 S and G = 4.
These rates apply to bagasseas fired containing approximately 50 per cent of moisture.
A high percentage of silica or salts in bagasse has sometimes been ascribed as the reason for the tendency to smoulder in certain cases of soft fiber bagasse.
Besides the percentage of bagasse in the cane, its physical condition has a bearing on its calorific value.
Numerous attempts were made to burn the bagasse green, among others the step grates imported from Louisiana and known as the Leon Marie furnaces, but satisfactory results were obtained in none of the appliances tried.
Furnace Design and the Combustion of Bagasse--With the advance in sugar manufacture there came, as described, a decrease in the amount of bagasse available for fuel.
Table 44 gives the value of mill bagasse at different extractions, which data may be of service in making approximations as to its fuel value as compared with that of other fuels.
This material contains coarse particles of bagasse together with other impurities including the lime and phosphoric acid which were used in this work.
These are used only in building the fibrous stalk of the cane and they may all be recovered in the bagasse and cane-juice impurities.
On account of the high potash content, these ashes make a valuable fertilizer, which should be mixed with the bagasse ashes and mud cake, and applied to the cane lands.
The bagasse is the refuse of the cane, after the sap has been extracted.
An immense iron tank below, called a juice box, receives the liquid portion, and another elevator bears the bruised and broken fragments to the opposite side of the building, where they are dropped into the bagasse burner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bagasse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
