7CH6.3-Sugar Technology |
Units: I |
Sugar Industry and sugar scenario in India and world. Raw materials such as Sugar cane and
beet root and their availability.
Raw materials and their preparation, continuous operations, cane processing, weighment,
chopping, grading crushing, milling and imbibition. Seeparation of bagase and bagacillo.
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Units: II |
Juice purification – screening filtration, chemical treatment, sulfitation, carbonization,
precipitation and clarification. Working of filter press, vacuum filtration and dorrclarifier
settler. |
Units: III |
Concentration of clarified juice in multi effect evaporation, triple and quadruple effect, and
capacity, stream economy, Co-current and countercurrent flow of juice in the evaporators.
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Units: IV |
Operations of vacuum pan. Theory of sugar crystallization, strike- pans sugar crystallizers.
Crystal drying, screening and grading.
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Units: V |
Sugar Industry bye products – bagasse, press mud, molasses; mud wax captive power and
their utilization.
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Text/ Reference Books |
1. Birch and Parket, “Sugar Sciences and Technology” App. Sci Pub.
2. Hong. P. “Principles of Sugar Technology” 3rd ed., Elsevier New York
3. Gopal Rao and Marshal Sitting, “Dryden Outlines of Chemical Technology,” East-West
Press, 3rd ed., New Delhi 1977
4. Austin, G.T., “Shreve’s Chemical Process Industries,” 5th Ed. McGraw Hill Book Co.
Singapore.
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