CONTENTS
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR RAW SUGAR AND CANE AND BEET REFINED SUGAR PRODUCTION
SEPTEMBER 8-10, 1999
SPONSORED BY
SUGAR PROCESSING RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
MAY 2000
CONTENTS
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Production of Sugar - Remaining Competitive in a Global Economy
John Patrick Jordan, Ph.D., Director, Southern
SESSION I
Opportunities and Challenges for Sugar Production
Opening Remarks
Peter Rein, Ph.D., Technical Director, Tongaat-Hulett
Sugar Ltd.,
Opportunities for Process Development in the North American Beet Sugar Industry
Christopher D. Rhoten, Vice President of Operations, and Mosen Asadi, Ph.D., Director of Research, Monitor Sugar Company, Bay City, Michigan
Simplified Sugar Refining
Ray T. Burke, Jr., Technical Director,
Systems for Producing White Sugar
Mary An Godshall, Senior
Scientist, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.,
New Separation Technologies: Effect on Sugar Quality
Vadim Kochergin,
Ph.D., Group Leader, Amalgamated Research Inc.,
Neural Networks and Their Possible Application in the Sugar Industry
Stephen D. Peacock, Senior Research Officer, Sugar Milling Research
Institute,
Value Added By-Products from the Stillage of Ethanol from Molasses Plants
Willem H. Kampen, Ph.D., Professor, and Michael Saska, Ph.D., Professor, Audubon Sugar Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
VLC Sugar in
Peter Field, President, Field Technology Consulting,
Zero Effluent: The Elimination of Liquid Effluent in a Cane Sugar Factory
David M. Meadows, Consulting Technologist, Technical Management
Department; Craig Jensen, Process Engineer, Maidstone
Sugar Mill; and Gerald T. Schumann, Development Technologist, Technical
Management Department, Tongaat-Hulett Sugar Limited,
SESSION II
Application of Membrane Technology in Sugar Production
Membrane Technology in Sugar Processing: Opening Remarks
Munir Cheryan,
Ph.D., Professor, Food and Biochemical Engineering,
Ultra-Filtration Technology Applications and Testing in the Raw Sugar Industry
José Alvarez, Vice President of Planning and Plant Operations, and
Carmen
High Efficiency Open Channel Membrane Device for Use in the Sugar Industry
Holly Haughney, Ph.D., Marketing Manager, Pall Corporation, Long Island, New York; Jason Jones, Manager of Pall Sep Application Engineering, and John Jusczak, Commercial Marketing Manager, Pall Corporation, Northborough, Massachusetts
Recent Application of Membrane Filtration in the Cane Sugar Industry
Marc-André Théoleyre, R&D Manager, Applexion, S.A.,
Practical Aspects of Membrane Filtration in the Sugar Industry
Vadim Kochergin, Ph.D., Group Leader, Amalgamated Research Inc.
Recent Developments in Sugar Clarification with Tubular Polymeric Membranes
Thomas J. Tyndall, Process Engineer, PCI Membrane Systems,
Application for Stainless Steel Crossflow Membranes in Sugar Processing
Scott Wittwer, Product Manager, Graver Technologies, Inc.,
Filtration of Clarified Cane Juice Using Spiral Polymeric Membrane Configuration
John McArdle, Manager of Commercial Development;
Anthony Eringis, Senior Development Engineer; and
Bruce Eaton, KOCH Membrane Syetems, Inc.,
SESSION III
The Role of Chromatographic Techniques in Sugar Processing
Effect of Feed Maldistribution on the Performance of a Chromatographic Separator
Michael Saska, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Audubon Sugar Institute,
Advances in the ARI Coupled
Mike Kearney, Director of New Technology, Amalgamated Research Inc.,
Chromatographic Separation Using SMB Technology
Marc-André Théoleyre, R&D Manager, Applexion, S.A., France; and H. Paananen, Finnfeeds
Chromatography in Sugar Processing
Gordan J. Rossiter,
Vice President of Technical Services, Advanced Separation Technologies,
Organo Chromatographic Separation Processes and Their Advantages
Kikuzo Kaneko and Kouji Tanikawa, Central Research Laboratories, Organo Corporation, Japan
Invert from South African Cane Molasses Using Chromatographic Techniques
S.D. Peacock, Senior Research Officer, S.B. Davis, S.N. Walford, H.W. Bernhardt, Sugar Milling Research Institute,
SESSION IV
New Decolorization/Adsorbent Systems
Application(s) of Finely Divided (Powdered) Immobilized Adsorption Media in the Sugar Industry
John Weaver, Product Manager, Graver Technologies,
Novel Application for Aluminum Compound Based Coagulants as Decolorizing Aids in Sugar Refining
Omar Fuentes, Sales Representative, Robert Hatch, President, Tony Grzemski, Technical Director and John Schaefer, Vice President of Sales, Kabo Chemicals, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Syrup Decolorization Options in an ISEP
Chuck Snyder and Rohan Seneviratne,
Advanced Separation Technologies, Inc.,
Moving Bed Decolorizing System -- A Departure from the Norm
William J. Merz, Principal Applications
Engineer, Calgon Carbon Corporation,
Resin Decolorization of High Color Syrups Thanks to Regenerant Recovery
Francois Rousset, President, Applexion, Inc.,
Decolorization by Granular Activated Carbon with Pulse-Bed System
Wang-Dah Hsieh, Associate Chemical Engineer,
and Yao-Chi Hsiao, Taiwan Sugar Research Institute,
New Decolorization/Adsorbent Systems for Use in Sugar Applications
Alan Greenberg, Senior Development Specialist, The
Dow Chemical Company,
SESSION V
Future research and development programs
Future Research and Development Programs
Stephen J. Clarke, Ph.D., Director, Industrial R&D,
Sugar Production Technology into the 21st Century
Trevor Theobald, Ph.D. British Sugar, U.K.; David Sargent, British Sugar, U.K. and Nicholas Broughton, Group Technical Director, British Sugar, UK
Cooperative Research in the Global Economy
Armand B. Pepperman, Ph.D., Research Leader, Southern Regional Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, New Orleans, Louisiana
Selling R&D to Your Management
Chung Chi Chou, Ph.D., Managing Director, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana
Research Needs for
Charley Richard, Ph.D., Vice President and Director of Research, American Sugar Cane League, Thibodaux, Louisiana, and Roddy Hulett, Manager of Sugar Division, Honiron Corporation, Jeanerette, Louisiana
Research in Cane Sugar Refinery
Luis Bento, Process and Development Manager, RAR-Refinarias
Açucar,
Needed R&D Programs for the North American Beet Sugar Industry
Thomas K. Schwartz, Executive Vice President, Beet Sugar Development
Foundation,
The Double Continuous Centrifuge Buckau Wolf System Performance and Application
Mosen Makina,
Ph.D., General Manager, Sugar Division, BWS Technologie
