METHOD FOR DETERMINING PURITY OF UNSATURATED MOLASSES Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: sugar industry. SUBSTANCE: method involves heating molasses sample to unsaturated state in thermostatically controlled vessel; determining content of dry substance in sample and providing partial solving of vibrating sugar crystals in molasses until full saturation, with sugar crystals being preliminarily placed in netted cylinder with following dipping said cylinder into molasses; vibrating crystals by driving netted cylinder into vibratory motion; in the process of vibration of crystals in molasses, determining several times content of dry substance in it and fixing time starting from initial movement of netted cylinder; calculating possible maximal content of dry substance on the basis of obtained data; determining content of sugar and other components and saturation coefficient; calculating molasses purity at centrifuging temperature of black molasses from known mathematical formulas. EFFECT: increased efficiency in controlling desugarization of molasses and improved precision in determining purity of saturated molasses. 2 ex