In India sugar industry is the second-largest agro-based industry is a segment of huge prominence to the Indian economy. Thus optimisation of sugar production process for the sake of economic, environmental and energy efficiency should be the prime concern. Based on all these facts, Professor Arpit Shukla has conducted a doctoral research work, for which he has been awarded PhD from Modi University, Rajasthan. Professor Shukla, son of Akhilesh Shukla and Saroj Shukla, has 16 years of vast experience in teaching and research field in reputed Engineering institution of town.

 

His research work is to optimise the sugar production process in the existing sugar plant by utilising the sugar production by products i.e. Bagasses, Molasses and Press mud. Today when crisis of energy resources is a national problem and research on renewable energy sources is going on, research work accomplished by Shukla can be useful to solve national problem of energy crisis in a great extent. According to Professor Shukla, the industry is facing several problems including low yielding of sugarcane, fluctuating production trends, uneconomical size of mills, inefficient technology, old and obsolete machinery, etc, hence there is need to research in this field for reducing production cost and increasing efficiency of the plant production.