Sugar Journal

The Effects of Trash Components in Factory Performance
Fors, A. and Arias, R.  1997.  During the crop of 1994 an experiment was conducted at San Francisco sugar mill basically to show the growers the effect that the different components of trash had in the factory under El Salvador conditions. In order to substantiate this experiment, a similar experiment was conducted at…
Sugarcane Factory Trials with Dextranase Enzyme
Clarke, M.A., Edye, L.A., et.al.  1997.  Trials on the addition of dextranase enzyme at two sugarcane factories, when high levels of dextran were reported, are described. In one factory enzyme was added to the juice before lime addition. In the other factory enzyme was added at the evaporator station. Effects were measured across…
Rapid Analytical Methods for Color and Ash in Raw Sugar
Nguyen, H.H., Rowe, G.S., et.al.  1997.  Color measurement could be simplified and made more rapid by using 0.01M MOPS buffer to maintain pH and filtering 10g/100 ml sugar solution through 0.45 um syringe filter. Ash measurement by conductivity is much faster and simpler than the current gravimetric sulphated method.…
Near Infrared (NIR) Routine Analysis of Sugarcane Juice
Clarke, M.A., Legendre, B.L., et.al.  1997.  A near infrared NIRSystems Beverage Analyzer was utilized for the analyses of sugarcane juice samples of experimental clones. Results from 500 comparative tests for brix and 350 tests for pol using the Beverage Analyzer and conventional methods compared favorably. The…
Harrison, J, and Lavarack, B.  1997.  This paper covers the energy requirements, power generation facility and a large scale biomass handling system to meet the requirements of a 40 Mwe peak power station. As part of this upgrade, a major cogenerating facility has been installed to take advantage of the waste fuel. A storage system has been designed and installed to handle the…