
Standard Fabrication Practices for Cane Sugar Mills
- 1st Edition, Volume 1 - January 1, 1981
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Author: E. Delden
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 8 9 6 7 - 0
Sugar Series, Vol. 1: Standard Fabrication Practices for Cane Sugar Mills focuses on the processes, methodologies, and principles involved in standard fabrication practices for… Read more

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Request a sales quoteSugar Series, Vol. 1: Standard Fabrication Practices for Cane Sugar Mills focuses on the processes, methodologies, and principles involved in standard fabrication practices for cane sugar mills. The publication first tackles the storage and transportation of cane, separation of juice from cane, use and behavior of bagasse, and juice weighing or measuring. The book then elaborates on liming, clarification, carbonatation, and sulfitation processes, and special clarification agents and their history. Topics include phosphate, magnesium compounds, clay, bauxite, charcoal and carbon, blankit, lime kiln, sulfur dioxide, and sample calculation of a sulfur burner. The text examines ion-exchange, evaporation, evaporator cleaning, measurement of heat-transfer coefficient, boiling house operation, seeding and crystallization, molasses centrifugation, and crystallizers. Discussions focus on water circulation, powdered-sugar preparation, crystallization procedure in practice, soda and acid facilities, cleaning shut-down, and variations on chemical cleaning. The manuscript is a vital source of data for researchers wanting to study the standard fabrication practices for cane sugar mills.
Glossary1 Storage and Transportation of Cane2 Separation of Juice From Cane3 Baggase-Bagacillo — Its Use and Behavior4 Juice Weighing or Measuring5 Liming6 Clarification Processes7 Sulfitation Process8 Carbonatation Process9 Special Clarification Agents10 Ion Exchange11 Evaporation12 Evaporator Cleaning13 Measurement of Heat-Transfer Coefficient14 Boiling House Operation15 Seeding and Crystallization16 Two-Boiling System17 Three-Boiling System18 Handling of A and B Molasses19 Double Magma, Complete Crystallization, etc.20 Molasses Centrifugation21 Crystallizers22 Centrifugal Station23 Exhaustion of Final Molasses24 Sugar Handling25 Insulation of Equipment26 Vacuum Equipment27 Principles of Condensing Equipment28 Steam29 Water Supply for Fabrication Purposes30 Pumps31 Piping32 Products Other than Sugar33 Instrumentation in Raw Sugar Mills34 Laboratory35 Laboratory Reports and Book-Keeping36 Purchase of Cane37 Paint and Color Specifications38 Off-Season Work for Regular Staff Personnel39 Interpretation of Laboratory Reports40 Solids BalanceSubject Index
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 1
- Published: January 1, 1981
- No. of pages (eBook): 0
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9781483289670
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