ABSTRACTS: From the proceedings of the 2012 South African Sugar Technologists Association Annual Conference - factory papers
Titles:
* Sugar Industry - Eighty-seventh annula review of the milling season in Southern Africa (2011-2012)
* Cane Quality - Review of seasonal average cane quality for Siuth African sugar mills
* Juice Extraction - Modelling the flow of cane constituents in the milling process
- Cane diffuser tracer test: Development of equipment to tune performance
- Direct clear juice: A feasbility study and piloting investigation into the profuction of clear juice in a sugarcane diffuser
* Purification - Laboratory and factory trials investigating the use of the indion 1951 colour precipitant on muxed juice
* Evaporation - Superheater performance in dual fired industrual watertube boilers witha comparison of two attemperator technologies
and Energy Economy - Evaporator scale control using "non-stick" coated tubes
- Experiences using a spray nozzle to distribute juice in a falling film evaporator
* Crystallisation - Design of and experience with giant continuous pans and crystallisers
- Assessing the quality of ball-milled slurries
* Machinert and - Review of 3D plant
Equipment
* Sugar refining - Pre treatment of refinery final run-off for chromatographic separation
Purification
* Sugar Refining - Optimisation of recovery house operations at Hullett refinery
Purification
* Molasses - Analytical study of gums found in final mollasses from six South African mills for the 2011/2012 milling season
* Environmental - Sustainable Disposal of biler ash
issues - Experimental effluent treatment at Sezela
* Bioenergy - The increasing role of anaerobic digestion as a source of energy