Audubon Sugar Institute’s Pilot Plant facility currently occupies approximately 6,000 square feet and is adjacent to all research laboratories where our skilled technologists and engineers work on sugar processing operations daily. The following state-of-the-art equipment is currently available:

• Two sets of cane knives and a shredder
• Tandem mill consisting of 4, 4-roll mills
• Batch clarifier
• Two single effect evaporators (5 sq. ft. and 75 sq. ft.)
• Two sugar boiling pans (14 and 25 gallons; automated)
• Three cooling crystallizers (30 gallons ea)
• Two batch sugar centrifuges
• Jeffry cane shredder
• Farrel cane sample mills
• French screw press
• Tilby separator
• Cane splitter
• Chipper
• Two tumbling reactors

The 4 milling tandem can process up to 1/2 ton of cane per hour.

The batch clarifier can handle juice supplied from the 4 milling tandem.

The vacuum pan is used to teach sugar boiling.