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Sugar is a basic foodstuff without which our modern eating habits would be unthinkable. Sugar is extracted from sugar cane or from sugar beets, which store approximately 15 to 18 percent of their own weight as sugar. Sugar cane consists of only 10 to 12 percent sugar. We offer a comprehensive range of products for the extraction of sugar from cane. Cane juice requires to be purified and recycled and this can be done with the help of flocculants. Flocculants can also be used in the mechanical de-watering on chamber filter presses, membrane filter presses or decanter centrifuges. Any impurities must be removed from the juice because they would otherwise interfere with the subsequent crystallization of the sugar itself from the cane syrup. Flocculants are used to enhance the separation of sugars from non-sugar substances during this filtration process.
The raw juice has now
become a clear, light-yellow, runny liquid that consists of 12 to 14 percent
sugar. This liquid is then vaporized to remove the water from it. During
this process, de-scaling agents help prevent undesired build-up of deposits
within the vaporizer. The resulting syrup contains 65 to 70 percent sugar.
The vaporization process continues until crystallization begins. Viscosity
reducers are used to enhance the crystallization process. Colour precipitants are added in the refining process to make sugar crystals white to required specifications. The application of Mill sanitation bicides reduces sucrose losses caused by enzymatic inversion, provides control of troublesome bacteria, e.g. Leuconostoc mesenteroides and Bacillus stearothermophilus, and helps to keep mill systems free of microbiological slime and odours. The use of biocides can improve commercial sugar recovery, improve clarification and pan boiling, and reduce man-hours required for cleaning mill systems. We have a series of products for sugar cane processing :
Feel free to contact us for any of the listed products.
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