Beet‐Sugar Handbook

Abstract

Preface. Acknowledgments. Chapter 1 Basics of Beet-Sugar Technology. Section 1 Sugar. Section 2 Beet-Sugar Factory. Section 3 Sugar Terminology. Section 4 Sucrose Properties. Section 5 Carbohydrates. Chapter 2 Sugarbeet Farming. Chapter 3 Sugarbeet Processing. Section 1 Beet Receiving and Storage. Section 2 Beet Drycleaning. Section 3 Beet Conveying and Fluming. Section 4 Stone and Trash Separation. Section 5 Beet Washing and Flume-Water Treatment. Section 6 Beet Slicing. Section 7 Juice Diffusion. Section 8 Pulp Treatment. Section 9 Milk-of-Lime and Carbonation-Gas Production. Section 10 Juice Purifi cation. Section 11 Sedimentation and Filtration. Section 12 Steam and Power Production. Section 13 Juice Evaporation. Section 14 Juice Decolorization and Sulfi tation. Section 15 Juice Storage. Section 16 Syrup Crystallization. Section 17 Molasses Exhaustion. Section 18 Massecuite Centrifuging. Section 19 Sugar Drying, Storing, and Packing. Section 20 Production of Specialty Sugars. Chapter 4 Quality Control. Chapter 5 Ion-Exchange Resin. Chapter 6 Juice-Softening Process. Chapter 7 Molasses-Softening Process (C. D. Rhoten). Chapter 8 Molasses-Desugaring Process. Chapter 9 Refi ning Raw Cane Sugar in a Beet-Sugar Factory. Chapter 10 Environmental Concerns of a Beet-Sugar Factory (J. L. Carlson). Chapter 11 Sugar Laboratory and Methods of Analysis. Section 1 Laboratory Organization. Section 2 Laboratory Analytical Instruments. Section 3 Laboratory Reagents. Section 4 Beet-End Methods of Analysis. Section 5 Sugar-End Methods of Analysis. Section 6 Quality-Control Methods of Analysis. Section 7 Special Methods of Analysis. Section 8 Molasses-Desugaring Methods of Analysis. Section 9 Environmental Methods of Analysis. Section 10 Laboratory Safety and First Aid. Chapter 12 Basics of Science Related to Sugar Technology. Section 1 Basics of Chemistry. Section 2 Basics of Mathematics and Statistics. Appendix. Tables. References. Glossary. Index.