METHOD FOR DETERMINING PURITY OF SATURATED MOLASSES Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: sugar industry.

SUBSTANCE: method involves determining content of dry substances, sugar and non-sugar components in basic molasses; heating molasses sample until the latter reaches unsaturated state and solving therein sugar crystals vibrating in netted cylinder until it becomes saturated; during saturation process, measuring electric resistance R_meas of molasses; determining current values and possible maximal value of dry substance content in unsaturated molasses on the basis of preliminarily set dependence between electric resistance R_meas and dry substance content DS_meas, said dependence being described by linear equation: DS_meas=a R_meas+c, where a, c are experimentally determined digital coefficients; calculating purity of saturated molasses at temperature of centrifuging of final massecuite from known mathematic formula with the use of obtained value of maximal dry substance content in saturated molasses sample.

EFFECT: simplified process for determining purity of saturated molasses and increased precision of obtained data referring to purity of molasses.

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