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Japanese 19th century wood sugarcane press in There are two processes for extracting juice from cane:. Milling, and. Diffusion. Milling Juice extraction by milling is the process of squeezing the juice from the cane under a set mills using high pressure between heavy iron rollers. Those mills can have from 3 up to 6 rolls; every set of mills are called tandem mill or mill train.
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For improve the milling extraction efficiency, imbibition water is added at each mill: Hot water is poured over the cane just before it enters the last mill in the milling train and is recirculated up to the reach the first mill. The juice squeezed from this cane is low in sugar concentration and is pumped to the preceding mill and poured onto the cane just before it enters the rollers, the juice from this mill is the same way pumped back up the milling train.
Mixed juice (that is to say cane juice mixed with the water introduced at the last mill) is withdrawn from the first and second mills and is sent for further processing. Milling trains typically have four, five or six mills in the tandem.
For improve the milling extraction performance before the cane reach the first mill, normally are used knife and shredder as preparation equipments. Diffusion Sugarcane diffusion is the process of extracting the sucrose from the cane with the use of imbibtion but without the squeezing by mills. Shredded cane is introduced into the diffuser at the feed end, Hot water is poured over the shredded cane just before the discharge end of the diffuser. The hot water percolates through the bed of cane and removes sucrose from the cane. This dilute juice is then collected in a compartment under the bed of cane and is pumped to a point a little closer to the feed end of the diffuser and this dilute juice is allowed to percolate through the bed of cane. At this point the concentration of sucrose in the cane is higher than the concentration of sucrose in the dilute juice just mentioned and so sucrose diffuses from the cane to the juice, this now slightly richer juice is pumped back up the diffuser and the process is repeated, typically, 12 to 15 times (compared with the four to six times for the milling process) Juice clarification Sugar cane juice has a of about 4.0 to 4.5 which is quite acidic.
Calcium hydroxide, also known as or limewater, is added to the cane juice to adjust its to 7. The lime helps to prevent sucrose's decay into glucose and fructose. The limed juice is then heated to a temperature above its boiling point.
The superheated limed juice is then allowed to flash to its saturation temperature: this process precipitates impurities which get held up in the calcium carbonate crystals. The flashed juice is then transferred to a clarification tank which allows the suspended solids to settle. The, known as clear juice is drawn off of the clarifier and sent to the evaporators. Juice evaporating The clarified juice is concentrated in a to make a syrup of about 60 percent sucrose by weight.
Crystallisation and centrifuging This syrup is further concentrated under vacuum in a vacuum boiling pan until it becomes, finely ground sugar crystals suspended in alcohol are introduced into the vacuum pan as seed crystals around which sucrose is deposited and these crystals then grow in size until they are ready to be discharged (typically about 1 millimetre (0.039 in)) A number of boiling schemes are possible, the most commonly used boiling scheme is the three-boiling scheme. This method boils the sugar liquors in three stages, called A-, B- and C. A batch type sugar separates the sugar crystals from the mother liquor.
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These centrifuges have a capacity of up to 2,200 kilograms (4,900 lb) per cycle. The sugar from the centrifuges is dried and cooled and then stored in a silo or directly packed into bags for shipment. The mother liquor from the first crystallization step (A-product) is again crystallized in vacuum pans and then passed through continuous sugar centrifuges. The mother-liquor is again crystallized in vacuum pans. Due to the low purity the evapo-crystallization alone is not sufficient to exhaust, and so the so-called massecuite (French for “boiled mass”) is passed through cooling crystallizers until a temperature of approx.
45 °C (113 °F) is reached. Then the massecuite is re-heated in order to reduce its viscosity and then purged in the C-produced centrifugals. The run-off from the C-centrifugals is called molasses. The spun-off sugar from the B-product and C-product centrifuges is re-melted, filtered and added to the syrup coming from the evaporator station. Continuous sugar centrifuge for recovery products Back-end refineries Some cane sugar mills have so-called back-end refineries.
In this case, a portion of the raw sugar produced in the mill is directly converted to refined sugar with a higher purity for local consumption, exportation, or bottling companies. Wastage is used for heat generation in the sugar mills. Energy in the sugar mill The remaining fibrous solids, called, are burned for fuel in the mill's steam boilers. These boilers produce high-pressure steam, which is passed through a turbine to generate electrical energy. The exhaust steam from the turbine is passed through the multiple effect evaporator station and used to heat vacuum pans in the crystallization stage as well as for other heating purposes in the sugar mill. Bagasse makes a sugar mill more than energy self-sufficient; surplus bagasse goes in animal feed, in paper manufacture, or to generate electricity for sale.
Factory automation As in many other industries has been promoted heavily in sugar refineries in recent decades. The production process is generally controlled by a central process control system, which directly controls most of the machines and components. Only for certain special machines such as the centrifuges in the sugar house decentralized are used for security reasons. History Sugar mills first appeared in the. They were first driven by, and then from the 9th and 10th centuries in what are today, and.
In the, sugar mills came into extended use in the 13th and 14th centuries, which greatly increased sugar production. The was applied to sugar-milling, with evidence of its use at in 1540, but possibly dating back several centuries earlier, and was mainly used in the northern Indian subcontinent.
Sugar also first appeared in the Indian subcontinent, using the principle of rollers as well as, by the 17th century. See also. Notes and references. Steindl, Roderick (2005), Hogarth, DM, ed., (PDF), Proceedings of the XXV Congress of International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists, Guatemala, Guatemala City, pp. 106–116. Adam Robert Lucas (2005), 'Industrial Milling in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: A Survey of the Evidence for an Industrial Revolution in Medieval Europe', Technology and Culture 46 (1): 1-30 10-1 & 27. Adam Lucas (2006), Wind, Water, Work: Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology, p.
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