Press Mud

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Filter cake or Pressmud is Material retained on the filter screens and discharged from the filters after filtering clarifier muds in the sugar mills
Press mud or filter cake is produced in vacuum filters and press filters
Press mud is also known as filter cake and is utilized as manure by the farmers. It is combustible and also used in brick kilns for making brick. When mixed with the spent wash generated by the distilleries, the resultant product is enriched organic manure, which has the capability to improve yields in farms. It also mitigates the need to treat the distillery effluent, which is very toxic
The use of filter cake as a soil conditioner is common among sugar planters
The cost of transport from the mill to the farm is high. Even if the planters want to use the filter cake, they have to buy it from the millers.
Press mud, which is discarded as a solid waste from sugar mills is found to be an useful substrate for biogas production
Many value added products are possible with pressmud and is worth exploring the potential

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