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Martine DECLOUX: Professor of Process Engineering at the École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Agricoles et Alimentaires (ENSIA)
INTRODUCTION
After presenting the storage, reception, beet washing, sugar extraction and diffusion juice purification processes used in beet sugar factories , this second part is devoted to juice concentration processes, energy balance and sugar crystallization.
The main differences between cane and beet sugar factories are then discussed.
This article is the subject of three booklets:
- Sugar processing (Part 1) ;
F 6 151 - Sugar factory transformation processes (Part 2) ;
- Transformation processes in sugar factories (Find out more).
The following abbreviations will be used:
S: sugar
NS: non-sugar
MS: dry matter
E: water
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Sugar factory transformation processes (part 2)
Juice concentration and energy balance
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Economic context
With beet containing between 16 and 19% sugar, and yields of around 10 to 11 tonnes of white sugar per hectare, metropolitan France produced 4.23 Mt (million tonnes) of white sugar in 2000-2001, with 35 factories whose average capacity in tonnes of beet per day is close to 11,769 t bett. / day. The number of sugar factories will continue to decline. Some industry...
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Manufacturers
Main manufacturers
A list of the main manufacturers can be found in :
the July-August special issue of Industries alimentaires et agricoles ;
once a year in the International Sugar Journal ;
in the sugar directory [publisher AGP (antenne générale de publication)].
Organizations
Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA) http://www.inra.fr
Centre d'étude et de documentation de l'Industrie sucrière (CEDUS) http://www.lesucre.com
Syndicat national des fabricants de sucre (SNFS)
Fonds d'intervention...
Websites
Ministère de l'Agriculture, de l'Alimentation, de la Pêche et des Affaires rurales http://www.agriculture.gouv.fr
Textes de lois (France et Europe), bulletins officiels des ministères http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr
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