Extraction of Sugar from Sugar Cane
Steps for sugar production involves:
- Cane receiving and unloading (receive the cane at the factory and unload it from the transport vehicles)
- Cane preparation (cutting and shredding cane to prepare it for juice extraction)
- Juice extraction (two technologies are in common use; milling or diffusion)
- Juice clarification (remove suspended solids from the juice, typically mud, waxes, fibres using ‘lime’)
- Juice evaporation (to concentrate the juice to a thick syrup called ‘molasses’)
- Syrup clarification (remove suspended solids from the syrup, typically colloid size of mud, waxes, fibres, etc.)
- Crystallisation
- Centrifugation (Separation of the sugar crystals from the mother liquor, done by centrifugal machines)
- Sugar drying
- Packaging and delivery
