Sugar Y Azucar

Rum A Value-Added Product in Louisiana
Kampem, W.H.  1998.  The Louisiana Rum Company plans to start operating an ultra-modern rum distillery, which will produce rum, animal feed and glycerine before the end of 2000. The Audobon Sugar Institute at the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center has demonstrated an entirely new and economical process to manufacture quality…
New Batch Centrifugal Performance at a Raw Sugar Factory
Karagodin, M.  1998. This article looks at the process performance of a modern high capacity centrifugal. It shows how the parameters of the process and components of a new design may affect the efficiency of operation in raw sugar production. New Batch Centrifugal Performance at a Raw Sugar Factory. Sugar y Azucar,…
From Bagasse to Ethanol in Louisiana
--------------.  1998.  Biomass ethanol holds enormous potential, as an alternative fuel that will increase the nation’s energy independence, benefit the environment and free needed food resources. The BC International technology makes use of the hemicellulose by replacing the yeast-based fermentation process with a genetically engineered…
Energy Saving Possibilities in the Sugar Industry
Wunsch, H.  1998.  A proposal on how existing cane sugar factories can reduce their steam demand down to 27 percent steam on cane. The proposal is using the first three Robert-stages and adding two falling film evaporators as 4th and 5th stages. The sugar boiling house is heated with 3rd and 4th vapors. Energy Saving…
The Amalgamated Beet or Cane Raw Juice Chromatographic Separator
Kearney, M.M.  1997.  The raw juice chromatographic process is based on the concept that a very high level of juice purification can be obtained prior to crystallization. A direct transfer of the process to cane sugar manufacturing will provide numerous benefits. These benefits include, among others the…