Sugar Processing Steps
Sugar Processing Steps
sugar
General terms indicating sweet carbohydrates
Harvesting of sugarcane
Fully mature
Manual
Mechanically
Transport and Handling
Trolleys
Trucks
Material Handling and storage
Hook/chain
Reeling
Conveyer belt
Carry
Sugarcane wash
through water
Cutting of canes
Cane knives to
To aid the
cut cane into
cane crushing
small pieces
SHREDDING
To removes leaves
and nodes and eye Hammer mill
buds shredder
Extraction of juice:
Crushing
Cane Cell
crushed to containin
break g juice
hard are
structure ruptured
Increase
No juice efficiency
extracted of juice
extraction
Milling Tandems
3 roller extracted
mills the juice
Feed Discharg 5-7 in
connecte Top roller from
roller e roller numbers
d in crushed
serious cane
Products of Mills
Use of
Bagasse
1.Generating electricity
Liming
Sulphuration
Phosphorating
carbonation
Filtration
Mud from
clarifier still
contain some
residual juice
Filtered to
extracted
juice in
rotary
vacuum
filters
Evaporation
Juice evaporated to
obtained super saturated
solution
Increase concentration
of juice from 15-degree
brix to 65-degree brix
Juice preheated to
around 107-110 degree
Brix is increased 65 to 75
by boiling at 65-degree
temp
Massecuite
Clarified sugar
Sugar cane Raw sugar juice Sugar crystals
juice