Clarification studies leading to the adoption of saccharate liming in a Mauritian sugar factory
| MSI99P2031 | |
| Wong Sak Hoi, L. Chung, J. | |
| Clarification studies leading to the adoption of saccharate liming in a Mauritian sugar factory | |
| Periodical article | |
| 1996 | |
| Proc. int. Soc. Sug. Cane Technol. | |
| 22, 172-178 | |
| Abstract published in Int. Sug. J. 97 (1161): A14 | |
| En | |
| En | |
| Cane juice clarification has become increasingly difficult at Mon Désert Alma Sugar Factory (MDA) in recent years, primarily because of the low P content of the mixed juice and the increasing levels of cane trash and soil being brought into the factory as a result of loading the harvested cane mechanically. A simple test was designed to simulate various methods of liming under laboratory conditions. Statistical analysis of results showed that the enzymatic process of starch removal did not affect clear juice turbidity, and saccharate liming produced a much clearer juice (51 per cent) than nonsaccharate liming. Of the different liming methods, hot liming gave the lowest juice turbidity, the difference (53 per cent) between hot liming and fractional liming being significant. Degassing the juice before liming rather than afterward also produced a clearer juice (36 per cent). The addition of 100 pm P to mixed juice being limed or the switching from lime milk to lime saccharate decreased the turbidity of the juice by 38 per cent when hot liming was practiced. MDA therefore adoptd saccharate liming as of the 1994 crop with a net improvement in clarification. | |
| SUGARCANE CANE SUGAR PROCESSING CLARIFICATION LIMING | |
| MAURITIUS | |
| Cane sugar manufacture | |
| 1995-09-27 | |
| En | |
| MSIRIMon Désert Alma | |
| LIB | |
| CAT | |
| ST |