Sugar News

Crystal Content - An Index of Sucrose Recovery
Camurungan, R.G.  1973.  The paper attempts to show the mathematical relationship between crystal content and molasses exhaustion in relation to the Purity at which the final massecuite is boiled. Crystal Content: An Index of Sucrose Recovery. Sugar News 49:425-430.
Boiling House Operational Techniques
Lopez, V.H.  1973.  In order to have efficient and synchronized Boiling House operations, uniformity of process standards should be practiced consistently by all three shifts. Technical procedures should be drafted to serve as guidelines not only for the supervisors but also for the tenders and operators. Emphasis on effective liming-…
The Influence of Non-Sugar in Crusher Juice on Low Grade Ratio
Binueza, J.M.  1974.  High non-sugar content in crusher juice, poor sanitation and clarification performance, destruction of sugar during heating and/or evaporation of juice, high purity of low sugar massecuite and low purity low grade sugar have adverse effect in increasing the quantity of the materials to be…
Heavy Duty Chopper-Fiberiser
Ducasse, V.  1974.  A machine for the preparation of sugarcane prior to milling or diffusion combines in a single unit, the merits of a cane knife and a shredder. The single rotor performs two different operations simultaneously, at two completely different points, namely, chopping the cane at the feed side while shredding the chopped cane at the…
Filterability of Some Philippine Commercial Sugars
Shafiq, M. and Dr. Samaniego, R.  1974.  Eleven samples of raw sugars were collected from different factories and were analyzed for their filterability and the filtration-retarding impurities contained in them. Relative filterabilities of raw sugars were estimated using an Elliot’s test filter and starch, SiO2, wax, gum and…