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A machine-learning approach for estimating mineral trash in sugarcane processing through turbidity measurements
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025The efficiency of a sugar mill is significantly impacted by the level of mineral trash entering with the cane. This type of trash adversely affects milling equipment, raises the ash content in bagasse, and diminishes clarification and filtration effectiveness due to higher mud levels, impacting extraction, cogeneration, and sucrose recovery.
A model for estimating color increase in refined sugar during storage
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025The color of all types of sugar, including sugar from sugarcane and beet sugar, tends to increase during storage between production and shipment, and is influenced by sugar characteristics, storage conditions, and duration. This increase can be significant, impacting compliance with product specifications and the quantity of sugar available for sale
A modern energy efficient sugar complex on 26% steam consumption – concept to commissioning
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025A modern sugar complex with a crushing capacity of 7500 t cane/d with a steam demand of 26% on cane and steam consumption (260 kg of steam/t of cane) to save bagasse. The purpose of bagasse saving was to utilize it for paper production.
A remote monitoring and advisory system
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025The profits of a sugar plant can be improved by reducing the sugar/energy losses, equipment downtime, and optimum performance of machinery. This can be achieved by regular monitoring of performance and utility parameters.
Addressing impurity impacts on sugar production: a comprehensive approach to improve sucrose recovery
Last Updated: julio 6, 2025Over the past 5 years, the Colombian sugarcane industry has faced rising impurity levels in cane supply due to increased mechanical harvesting (from 64 to 75%), fluctuating weather, and varying cultivation practices, resulting in a 2.3% decline in mixed juice purity and a 20% increase in final molasses losses by 2024 compared to 2019.
An improved electric drive for sugarcane preparation machines
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025An improved electric drive is presented for coupled motor-run sugarcane preparation machines in the sugar industry. The conventional slip ring induction motor (SRIM) drive has shortcomings of huge slip power loss, high drop in the rated speed, less flexibility for realizing optimum knife/hammer tip speed, low power factor, and unequal load sharing.
An innovative way for steam economy and capacity expansion by integrating an MVR in an evaporation scheme
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025The sugar industry is an energy-intensive industry, with significant energy costs associated with the evaporation process. A novel energy saving scheme is introduced by integrating mechanical vapour recompression (MVR) technology into the evaporation stages of sugar production as the syrup concentrator.
Analytics model for predicting sucrose content in sugarcane using machine-learning techniques
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025Sucrose is one of the most important indicators of profitability of Colombian sugar mills, hence understanding its drivers and forecasting its levels are fundamental for business. A model that predicts the percentage of sucrose based on historical data from mechanically harvested farms was developed to predict monthly sucrose levels and allow planning of monthly and annual sugar production.
Application of antimicrobial agents at minimum inhibitory concentration values for optimal control of microbial isolates from Louisiana sugarcane factories
Last Updated: junio 19, 2025Microbial isolates from sugar crop-processing facilities were tested for susceptibility to industrial antimicrobial agents to determine minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values for optimal dosing. Hydritreat 2216 (peracetic acid) showed broad spectrum activity against all bacterial isolates as well as Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Application of antimicrobial agents at minimum inhibitory concentration values for optimal control of microbial isolates from Louisiana sugarcane factories
Last Updated: junio 17, 2025Gillian O Bruni and Evan Terrell USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research Center, 1100 Allen Toussaint Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70124, United States of...