Sugar News
1954
Sugar News
Grinding Capacities of Cane Sugar Mills
Cabrera, J.M. 1954. The paper summarizes milling equipment in actual operation. Text with tabulations and graphs cover mill sizes, crusher types and arrangements, number of milling units in tandem, tonnage ground, sucrose in cane, fiber in cane, maceration employed; it includes various curves comparing the... Read More
1954
Sugar News
Correlation Between Juice and Molasses Purities A Fallacy
Sto. Domingo, J.P. 1954. In all recent studies on the determination of the expected purities of molasses, the main factor considered is the chemical composition of the molasses itself or of the initial juice. The purity of the juice is not directly involved in this determination. Correlation... Read More
1954
Sugar News
Conversion of Excess Sugar Into Useful Products
Gonzaga, L. 1954. The paper presents an idea that may be of help in the solution of excess sugar production. This idea is the manufacture of acetic acid from the excess sugar cane juice, as it comes out of the sugar mill, acetic anhydride and cellulose acetate. The cellulose acetate has a higher market value... Read More
1954
Sugar News
Bagasse Grows Up
Oliveros, S.B. 1954. Nylon generally starts with two raw materials called hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid. Furfural can be made from bagasse with no great difficulty. Both essential materials used for producing nylon can be made from furfural. And furfural can be commercially produced from sugarcane bagasse thus, it can be made in... Read More
1954
Sugar News
Alcoholic Fermentation in High Concentration of Molasses
Ho, T.C. 1954. The article deals with a new development in the manufacture of ethyl alcohol by isolating the molasses yeast for pitching in high concentration of molasses, so as to produce 10-11% of alcohol by volume in the fermented mash. This in turn, would increase 4% of the capacity of... Read More