Automated Method for Rapid Determination of Reducing Sugars

摘要

In the sugar industry, determination of the reducing sugars can pro vide information about the quality of the raw material, process control and characteristics of the produced sugar. The Lane-Eynon method is often used for this determination. This method is very accurate if all the procedures are performed with much care and by experienced analysts. Its main drawbacks are the long time delay, complicated procedure, and heavy reliance on experience. In this paper an automatic method based on flow phototitration is proposed, which has been widely used for routine analysis in the sugar industries in China.