Cane Sugar Engineering
by Peter Rein
contains useful information of a practical nature for design and/or the operation of sugar mills. Sufficient background information and theory is given for an understanding of all the practical aspects. Sources of further information are given for more theoretical background. The text is comprehensive covering all aspects of cane sugar and related operations and processes provides an up to date source of information for those involved in all aspects of cane sugar processing.
Peter Rein’s Cane Sugar Engineering is directed at active practitioners in the cane sugar and ethanol industry. This includes
- mill engineers,
- process
- production managers,
- design engineers and students.
Size: 17 × 24 cm, 943 pages
450 figures and photographs, 205 tables,
4 color printing
Hardcover,
ISBN 978-3-87040-167-2
EUR324 + postage + (VAT, where applicable)
EUR70 (+VAT, where applicable)
Available on Android, Apple (IOS) and PC.
How to use Bartens E-Books
EUR60 (+VAT, where applicable)
Available on Android, Apple (IOS) and PC.
How to use Bartens E-Books
Contents
1 Sugarcane
2 Cane evaluation and payment
3 Supply and handling of sugarcane
4 Cane preparation
5 Milling
4 Cane preparation
6 Cane diffusion
7 Mill and bagasse conveyors
8 Raw juice handling
9 Juice heating
10 Clarification
11 Filtration
12 Evaporation
13 Condensers and vacuum equipment
14 Syrup clarification
15 Crystallization
16 Cooling crystallizers
17 Centrifugal separation
18 Molasses exhaustion
19 Drying and storage of raw sugar
20 Raw sugar quality
21 Molasses handling and storage
22 Sugar refining
23 Color and decolorization systems
24 White sugar handling and conditioning
25 Ethanol production
26 Chemical control of factories
27 Bagasse handling, storage and drying
28 Steam generation
29 Factory steam and energy balance
30 Water and condensate systems
31 The Power Station
32 Electricity
33 Production of value-added by-products
34 Physical properties
Tables, SI Units
Conversion factors
Subject index
About the Author
Professor Peter Rein was from 1969 to 1979 research and production engineering with Tongaat-Hulett Sugar. In that year he was promoted to Consulting Technologist, which position he held until 1992, when he was further promoted to Technical Director until January, 2000. In February 2000 he accepted a Professorship at the Audubon Sugar Institute, LSU AgCenter at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, becoming Head of that institute.
Prof. Peter Rein has contributed to more than 100 papers including patents and has made numerous contributions to books and invited lectures. Professor Peter Rein is well-known throughout the sugar world for his outstanding contributions, his openness, and his leadership skills. Prof. Peter Rein has been one of the most renowned cane sugar technologists in the last 40 years.
Contributors to Cane Sugar Engineering
R.G. Attard
Formerly Production Chemist
Mackay Sugar Co-operative
Australia (Chapter 11)
T.L. Boshoff †
Formerly Consulting Engineer
Tongaat-Hulett Sugar
South Africa (Chapters 31 and 32)
M.B. Inkson
Managing Director
Thermal Energy Systems and Sugar
Knowledge International, United Kingdom
(Chapter 31 and 32)
N. Magasiner
Founder Thermal Energy Systems
South Africa (Chapter 28)
D.M. Meadows
Executive Director
Technology Management
Tongaat-Hulett Sugar
South Africa (Chapters 19 and 24)
B.St.C. Moor
Consultant
Bosch Projects
Formerly Director Tongaat-Hulett Sugar
South Africa (Chapters 5 and 7)
J. Nolasco Jr.
Researcher, Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory
Formerly in Process Division Copersucar, Dedini Indústrias de Base, and Amyris
Brazil (Chapter 25)
S.D. Peacock
Head of Operations Support
Sugar, Technology Group,
Tongaat Hulett Limited, South Africa
(Chapters 19 and 24)
A.B. Ravnö
Formerly Director SMRI and
Technical Director Illovo Sugar Group
South Africa (Chapter 20)
E.C. Rivera
Researcher Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory
Formerly in Chemical Engineering at
State University of Campinas, Brazil
(Chapter 25)
R.J. Steindl
Principal, Sugar Consulting International
Formerly Principal Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology and Research
Australia (Chapters 10 and 11)
C.E. Vaz Rossell
Coordinator, Biomass Process Division
Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory
Formerly in Food Engineering at State University of Campinas, and Head of Process Division at Copersucar Brazil
(Chapter 25)
P.G. Wright
Principal Consultant PGW ProSuTech
Australia (Chapters 10 and 11)
C.K. Yamakawa
Engineer Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory
Formerly at Dedini Indústrias de Base
Brazil (Chapter 25)