SELECTED RAW SUGAR RD TOPICS - OF INTEREST TO SUGAR REFINERS?

摘要

This paper presents selected R&D work carried out in the raw sugar industry that may have applicability to sugar refiners. The author has been involved in the selected projects during his lifetime of work with the Sugar Research Institute, the premier Australian raw sugar process R&D provider. It gives examples of progress in the understanding of and equipment design in the areas of juice evaporation, sugar crystallisation, modelling the incorporation of impurities into sugar crystals, mass/energy modelling of refineries, centrifugals for sugar separation, molasses exhaustion, and raw sugar drying. Examples are also given of the R&D approach to mathematically model the behaviour of the major processes and operations in sugar production using purpose-developed computer programs. Illustrations are made of the use of computer spreadsheets to model and investigate the complex processes of raw sugar processing and sugar refining.