Second Year of Results for the Application of Rendement Factors Concept to Predict Sucrose Losses to Molasses from Mediterranean Sugar Beet

摘要

In 2004, for the first time a new quality formula was established for Moroccan beet using the Rendement Concept of Burba and Harling (2003). During the 2005 campaign, additional analyses of molasses, thick juice and cossettes, taken over a period of 40 days from the same Moroccan sugar factory, were carried out to verify the data and the formula. The formula for 2005 is structurally similar to the formula from 2004. The only variation observed concerns the ratio Total Soluble Nitrogen / Alpha Amino Nitrogen. The Moroccan Rendement Formula, established over two campaigns, allows the assessment of the relative technical beet quality based on standard tare house analyses (K, Na, amino-N). This concept avoids the effort to produce thick juice or molasses in a pilot plant.