Economic aspects of cane sugar production. By F. Maxwell, D.Sc., M.I.Mech.E. Pp. vi + 199. London: Norman Rodger, 1927. 12s. 6d

1928 ◽  
Vol 47 (18) ◽  
pp. 473-473
Author(s):  
Lewis Eynon
Keyword(s):  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Sugar Production ◽  
Economic Aspects

Excellent environmental performance of beet sugar production in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-165
Author(s):  
Bertram de Crom ◽  
Jasper Scholten ◽  
Janjoris van Diepen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Sugar Production ◽  
Beet Sugar ◽  
Glucose Syrup

To get more insight in the environmental performance of the Suiker Unie beet sugar, Blonk Consultants performed a comparative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study on beet sugar, cane sugar and glucose syrup. The system boundaries of the sugar life cycle are set from cradle to regional storage at the Dutch market. For this study 8 different scenarios were evaluated. The first scenario is the actual sugar production at Suiker Unie. Scenario 2 until 7 are different cane sugar scenarios (different countries of origin, surplus electricity production and pre-harvest burning of leaves are considered). Scenario 8 concerns the glucose syrup scenario. An important factor in the environmental impact of 1kg of sugar is the sugar yield per ha. Total sugar yield per ha differs from 9t/ha sugar for sugarcane to 15t/ha sugar for sugar beet (in 2017). Main conclusion is that the production of beet sugar at Suiker Unie has in general a lower impact on climate change, fine particulate matter, land use and water consumption, compared to cane sugar production (in Brazil and India) and glucose syrup. The impact of cane sugar production on climate change and water consumption is highly dependent on the country of origin, especially when land use change is taken into account. The environmental impact of sugar production is highly dependent on the co-production of bioenergy, both for beet and cane sugar.

Cane-Sugar Production in the British Empire

1930 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Sugar Production

The Archaeology of Cane Sugar Production: A Survey of Twenty years of Research in Cyprus

2001 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 305-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Louise von Wartburg
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Sugar Production ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Industrial Archaeology ◽  
Written Information ◽  
New Information ◽  
First Time

The first research project in medieval industrial archaeology in Cyprus originated with the investigation of the Lusignan cane sugar production centre at Kouklia (Stavros Project); it became an incentive for the exploration of the establishments of the Hospitallers at Kolossi and the Cornaro family at Episkopi. Excavations at Kouklia-Stavros (1980–82 and 1987–91) recovered a sophisticated structure of milling and refining installations, and revealed new economic and technological aspects of this important, but thus far hardly explored industry of the island in Lusignan and Venetian times. The wealth of new information gained made it possible to understand for the first time thoroughly how Levantine cane sugar refineries actually worked. The contextual approach of the Stavros Project, interrelating archaeological evidence and written information, suggests further interesting research topics such as the repercussions of the sugar industry on social structure, settlement patterns, and environment, or the transfer of the methods and technology of sugar production from Islamic lands to the western Mediterranean, and finally to the Americas.

scholarly journals Fractal Behavior in the Clarification Process of Cane Sugar Production

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaomo Yu ◽  
Junke Ye ◽  
Jing Hu ◽  
Xiaoping Liao ◽  
Jianbo Gao
Keyword(s):  
Long Range ◽  
Industrial Process ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Chemical Processes ◽  
Sugar Production ◽  
Long Range Correlations ◽  
Sugar Syrup ◽  
Fundamental Understanding ◽  
Physical And Chemical

Cane sugar production is an important industrial process. One of the most important steps in cane sugar production is the clarification process, which provides high-quality, concentrated sugar syrup crystal for further processing. To gain fundamental understanding of the physical and chemical processes associated with the clarification process and help design better approaches to improve the clarification of the mixed juice, we explore the fractal behavior of the variables pertinent to the clarification process. We show that the major variables in this key process all show persistent long-range correlations, for time scales up to at least a few days. Persistent long-range correlations amount to unilateral deviations from a preset target. This means that when the process is in a desired mode such that the target variables, color of the produced sugar and its clarity degree, both satisfy preset conditions, they will remain so for a long period of time. However, adversity could happen, in the sense that when they do not satisfy the requirements, the adverse situation may last quite long. These findings have to be explicitly accounted for when designing active controlling strategies to improve the quality of the produced sugar.

Comparison of beet and cane sugar production methods and opportunities for dual production

2019 ◽  
pp. 723-729
Author(s):  
Pedro Avram-Waganoff ◽  
Boris Morgenroth
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Close Monitoring ◽  
Sugar Production ◽  
Steam Consumption ◽  
Pressure Drops ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Automation Systems ◽  
Technological Improvements

There are still large differences in process steam consumption, sugar recovery and plant availability when comparing sugar production from beet versus that from cane on a global scale. These are partly due to higher sugar contents and purities of sugar beet, but also due to more developed process technologies enabling a more efficient usage of steam and energy. Specific areas of a cane factory that can benefit from adaption technologies typically employed in European beet sugar production are: heat-transfer equipment especially evaporators and condensers, sugar-house work including seed magma systems by cooling and improved crystallizer designs, close monitoring and reduction of water input at all stages of the process, modern layout of the plant in order to reduce pressure drops and enable good supervision, and efficient electrical drives and automation systems. As a result, the improved factories have been able to increase significantly sugar yield and cogeneration power for sale to the national grid and have an increased profitability. Some specific examples of the technological improvements and benefits obtained in some cane factories as a result of the above measures are presented. A further example of the possibilities to process sugarcane and sugar beet in a highly efficient dual-use plant is also shown. Due to the low process-steam consumption of the plant, enough surplus bagasse is produced during the cane crop in order to be self-sufficient in fuel during the beet crop.

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