Produccion De Azucar

SUGAR PRODUCTION

Harvesting. The first step is to harvest sugar cane , which is then cut and collected .

Storage . Sugar cane is washed and weighed to determine their quality , and their fiber content , sucrose and quality.

Picado cane . Sugar cane is cut into machines that process it into smaller pieces .

Milling . The juice of the sugar cane is extracted by pressure . The process is carried out with hot water to extract the maximum amount of sucrose in the fibrous material .

Clarification and refinement. For clarification process temperature rises game to separate a clear juice. Is refined with lime helps remove insoluble compounds. This usually involves treatment with gaseous sulfur dioxide to bleach some types of sugar.

Evaporation. To obtain a syrup with a solids concentration of 55% to 60% the game evaporated , then purified on a clarifier similar to the previous process .

Crystallization . In this process are obtained , and separating the sugar crystals and liquid .

Centrifuged . In this process the crystals and liquid are separated .

Drying and cooling . The still moist sugar is dried with hot air in counterflow and then cooled with cold air in counterflow .

Packaged . The cold and sugar packed in bags and ready for sale.

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