Diagram of sugarcane. Some of the smaller crushers with capacities of between 200 and 500kg cane per hour have. Sugarcane reception sulphitation column pre evaporator evaporator flotation system vacuum pans affination re melt 1st clarification 2nd clarification crystallization refined sugar heat exchanger preparation of must yeast treatment vat centrifuge fermented juice tank column a distillery column b column c hydrous ethanol neutral ethanol anhydrous ethanol storage of ethanol storage of ethanol. The plants are two to six metres six to twenty feet tall with stout jointed fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose which accumulates in the stalk internodes. Sugar is remarkable in so many different ways.
A simplified process flow diagram for a typical cane sugar production plant is shown in figure 91011 1. The reed accumulates sugar to about 15 percent of its weight. The cane is received at the mill. Sugarcane grows to an average of 14 feet and takes at least 12 months to mature.
Sugarcane yields about 2600000 tons of sugar per year. The following points highlight the six main steps involved in manufacturing cane sugar. When the cane is cut rapid deterioration of the cane begins. Sugar beet mills are normally close to the farms where.
Australia egypt java india the philippines and cuba are other nations that grow this sweet crop. Other sugarcane products include molasses rum and cachaca a brazilian alcohol and the plant itself can be used as thatch and as livestock fodder. History cultivation and uses. For information on the processing of cane sugar and the history of its use see sugar.
It is the sweet sap in the stalks that is the source of sugar as we know it. Sugarcane is the main agricultural crop cultivated in brazil followed by soybean and corn table 1among the feasible raw materials for ethanol production sugarcane shows the most promising results because it has a high planted area in the brazil territory and presents the higher quantity of biomass generated which could be. In the united states sugarcane is grown in hawaii and florida. It is natural and has been produced from sugar cane and sugar beet for thousands of years.
Extraction of the juice 2. Sugar synthesized in the leaves is used as a source of energy for growth or is sent to the stalks for storage. This article treats the cultivation of the sugarcane plant. With diagram botany economic botany food plants crops sugarcane cane sugar.
After processing and refining not only are the end products exceptionally pure and highly marketable but even the by products can be sold or put to good use. Sugarcane versus other feedstock for the ethanol production. Sugarcane or sugar cane are several species and hybrids of tall perennial grasses in the genus saccharum tribe andropogoneae that are used for sugar production.