Dextran in the Sugar Factory
Matic, M. 1981. It is of considerable importance for both the raw sugar producers and the sugar refiners that an adopted test be specific and its results meaningful. Unfortunately, the haze method for determination of dextran, tentatively adopted by I.C.U.M.S.A., falls short of these requirements and its indiscriminate use may lead to a lot of…
Dextran Analysis
Roberts, E.J. 1981. Outlined are the methods for dextran detection which have been published. Apparently, neither of which is specific for dextran and two methods for total polysaccharides. Dextran Analysis: Methods and Problems. Sugar y Azucar, June 1981:52-53.
Considerations for Efficient Operation of Sugar Mills
Leech, F. and Radovich, J. 1981. The most common method of connecting the low-speed gear reduction unit to a sugar mill is by use of a square mill coupling. The design of this coupling is such that high loads can be developed on the output shaft and the output bearing on the low-speed reducer due to high top roll float.…
Bagasse Utilization in Cuba
---------------. 1981. Cuba-9 is now testing on a factory production scale the results of ten years of laboratory research and small-scale pilot plant tests on bagasse by ICIDCA. It is a semi-commercial in character and has a daily capacity of 34 tonnes of newsprint and five tones of dissolving pulp. Cuba recently put into operation a bagasse…
Automation for Cane Payment System
Nolting, M.F. 1981. The Saccharodata is a flexible, extendible modular system for data acquisition, data collection and data processing, as well as for control purposes, which was specifically designed for the sugar industry. The layout of an automatic system for data processing, combining all the elements necessary for a complex cane-…