NEW Beet-Sugar Handbook published
Published online: Nov 21, 2006
Sugar Producer Staff
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This book is described as an all-in-one reference for the beet-sugar industry.
Beet-Sugar Handbook is a practical and concise reference for technologists, chemists, farmers, and research personnel involved with the beet-sugar industry. It covers:
Basics of beet-sugar technology
Sugarbeet farming
Sugarbeet processing
Laboratory methods of analysis
The book also includes technologies that improve the operation and profitability of the beet-sugar factories, such as:
Juice-softening process
Molasses-softening process
Molasses-desugaring process
Refining cane-raw sugar in a beet-sugar factory
The book ends with a review of the following:
Environmental concerns of a beet-sugar factory
Basics of science related to sugar technology
Related tables for use in calculations
The author, DR. MOSEN ASADI, received his PhD in chemical engineering (major in sugar technology) from the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Prague, Czech Republic, in 1983. His PhD thesis was on molasses desugaring by chromatographic process. After working in the U.S. beet-sugar industry for over twenty years, mainly in R&D, he retired in 2003. He has taught chemistry at the Community College of Southern Nevada.
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