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Sugar Beet Process Solutions
Cleaning / Extraction
Purification
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Evaporation
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Vacuum Pan, Crystallization, Centrifuge
Drying/Storage
Lime Plant
MDS Plant
Pulp Drying / Pulp Press Spindle
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Cleaning / Extraction
The beets are received and washed to remove mud, rocks and sand, and dropped into a hopper to be sliced into cossettes. The cossettes are sent to the diffuser to extract sugar solution named raw juice.
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Purification
Raw juice is moved through various stages of purification and filtration to remove impurities and other non-sugars. The juice then moves to the evaporator supply and is named thin juice.
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Evaporation
Thin juice with 13%-15% sucrose moves through multiple evaporators heated by exhaust steam to remove excess water until it becomes thick juice with 65%-70% sucrose.
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Vacuum Pan, Crystallization, Centrifuge
Thick juice is boiled and crystallized to a high concentration, mixed and dropped into centrifuges to separate the crystals from the liquor. Other sugars go through further processing.
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Drying/Storage
White sugar is then dried, cooled, and moved into storage silos until it is ready to be transported.
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Lime Plant
Limestone and coal/natural gas are burned to produce CO2 gas and burned lime, and when mixed with water, produces milk of lime. These two products are used in purification during carbonation.
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MDS Plant
Left over molasses is mixed with soda ash to form precipitate, which is then removed during filtration. Separation and evaporation then extracts and concentrates other by-products.
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Pulp Drying / Pulp Press Spindle
Wet pulp is pressed to reduce moisture to about 75% then placed in dryer drums to be reduce moisture down to 10%. The dried pulp moves to the pellet mills, is compacted and goes to bulk storage.
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