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Sugar Pilot Plant

Pilot Plant Vacuum Pan at Audubon Sugar Insitute (Picture by M. Saska).
Pilot Plant vacuum pan at Audubon Sugar Insitute (Picture by M. Saska, 2006).
  • Complete 15 TCH mill tandem
  • Mixed juice receiving tank and liming station
  • Juice heaters (heat exchanger and hydroheater)
  • Flash tank, clarifier/defecation station
  • Rotating vacuum filter (4 ft2 )
  • Two single effect evaporators (5 ft2 and 70 ft2 )
  • Two sugar boiling pans (14 and 25 gallons; computer controls)
  • Three cooling crystallizers (30 gallons)
  • Batch sugar centrifuge
  • Cane shredder
  • Cane sample mills
  • French screw press
  • Tilby separator
  • Bagasse hydrolysis reactors
Last Updated: 7/2/2009 6:51:45 AM

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