Sugar News

Simplified Table for Purity Calculations
Soliven, F.A.  1932.  A presentation of a simplified routine purity calculation for sugar house control. Simplified Table for Purity Calculations. Sugar News 13:216-222.

Seasonal Variations in Polarization and Purity
Bissinger, G.H.  1932.  A compilation of the polarization and purity data of various sugar central in the Philippine revealed some striking features. One of which is that, while the polarization rises to a peak and continues fairly high for the entire milling season, the purity rises to a much sharper peak and falls off much more…

Preliminary Tests of the Penning Gravity Subsider at the Sugar Mill of the University of the Philippines
King, R.H.  1932.  This article indicate advantages of Penning Gravity subsider over existing juice settling appliances as shown on the preliminary tests conducted on mixed juice. Preliminary Tests of the Penning Gravity Subsider at the Sugar Mill of the University of the…

Power Factor Correction
Skinner, T.V.S.  1932.  The selection of equipment for power correction is an economic problem since a successful corrective application must show a satisfactory return on the investment. When considering correction in sugar centrals, many successful installations show that the capacitor is the most flexible and economical means of power factor…

Philippine Molasses
King, R.H. and Rotor, R.B.  1932.  The first comprehensive survey of the chemical and physical properties of Philippine final molasses is presented. Twenty-one samples of representative Philippine final molasses have been analyzed for the most important constituents such as brix, total solids, moisture, pol, sucrose, glucose, apparent gravity, true purity,…