Nguyen et al. has made the economic allocation for energy
partition between sugar and molasses in a Thailand’s case [28].
Due to increasing price of molasses in Thailand, the sugar to
molasses ratio has dropped from 15 to 8.6 between 2005 and 2006.
Yield and price of sugar and molasses are given in Table 5 for the
case of Nepal in two consecutive seasons. In 2006/2007 the
economic allocation ratio was 22.6 while the value is 21.8 in 2008,
getting an average allocation ratio of 22.2:1 (sugar:molasses),
which is used to divide the energy inputs in this study. For
example, out of 990 GJ primary energy consumption for electricity
use in the sugarcane milling process (including its facilities), sugar
and molasses take 947.3 GJ and 42.7 GJ respectively.