The Andhra Sugars Limited (India) operates three cane sugar plants, producing direct plantation-white sugar. With innovation, good quality sugar meeting EC-2 specifications is being produced at the three plantation-white cane sugar plants without the use of a backend refinery or sophisticated filtration equipment.
The production of an octane booster from sugarcane bagasse was investigated. The process consists of seven stages. The first stage is to dry sugarcane bagasse until the moisture content is below 5%. The second stage is the continuous pyrolysis of sugarcane bagasse at 500-600°C.
Australian pan stages have been using massecuite conductivity since the 1960s as the process variable related to massecuite composition. The signal is used for simple feedback control of the feed rate of syrup, molasses or balance water to the pan.
The South African Sugarcane Research Institute is developing genetically modified (GM) sugarcane with enhanced resistance to Eldana saccharina by introducing Cry1Ab and Cry2Ab genes. Two genotypes, T10K and TN71, were selected as suitable candidates for transformation, representing South African sugarcane industry's rainfed and irrigated regions, respectively
Since 2016, the Colombian Sugarcane Research Center (Cenicaña) has collaborated with six sugar mills to measure the carbon footprint for fuel ethanol production, following ISO 14064-1 standards. In 2022, the cradle-to-gate carbon footprint of Colombian bioethanol averaged 469 kgCO₂eq/m
Soil fertility maps enable the detection of areas with different nutrient levels, and identifying environments with varying production levels contributes to zoning and the management of practices that allow for the differential treatment of each zone.
This paper presents a comprehensive engineering review focused on the accurate and reliable selection of control valves for milk of lime (MOL) and calcium saccharate applications within the sulphitation, defecation and carbonation sections of sugar-processing plants.
Advances in the conversion of sugarcane bagasse into 5-chloromethylfurfural (CMF) as a platform chemical for biofuels and bioplastics are presented. Two-stage sequential processing strategies were examined to determine the impact on yields of CMF and furfural and ease to facilitate downstream conversion to more valuable chemical applications.
The wide diversity in growing conditions and sugarcane varieties complicates cane-quality management in South Africa. Due to the importance of high cane quality towards the economic sustainability of sugarcane farming, the South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI) invests in scientific and participatory research that aims to enable and promote judicious cane quality management by farmers.
Precision agriculture has transformed the agricultural sector, especially in sugarcane farming, by increasing its efficiency and productivity using self-guided machinery, RTK drones, and robots, However, factors such as uncontrolled traffic, diversity of machinery brands, and differences in instrumentation among machines, alongside with the high cost of RTK mobile stations and the lack of standardization in correction signals, have hindered a widespread adoption of this technology.