PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1994 S.P.R.I. WORKSHOP ON

PRODUCTS OF SUGARBEET AND SUGARCANE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section 1. Sugarcane

Chapter 1. Products from sugarcane - pp. 1-22

Brian S. Purchase

Chapter 2. The Hawaiian co-generation experience - pp. 23-33

George E. St. John

Chapter 3. A new generation of sucrose products made by the cocrystallization process - pp. 34-50

Ahmed Awad

Chapter 4. Recovery of process water and solids from sugar refinery waste waters using new low cost evaporation technology - pp. 51-74

Leif Ramm-Schmidt and Päivi Paakkarinen

Section 2. Sugarbeet

Chapter 5. Alternative utilization of the beet sugar process by-products - pp. 75-132

Helena Hallafloro and Sune Berghäll

Chapter 6. Industrial production of paper using integral pulp from sugarbeet - pp. 133-149

Giuseppe Vaccari, Clemente Nicolucci, Giorgio Mantovani, and Achille Monegato

Chapter 7. Adding value to sugarbeet pulp - pp. 150-167

Nicholas W. Broughton, Colin C. Dalton, Graham C. Jones and E.L. Williams

Chapter 8. Diverse products from the sugarbeet factory - pp. 168-178

Horst Giehring

Chapter 9. The beet sugar plant of the future - pp. 179-191

Sarah Galt, Kent B. McReynolds and Jean-Pierre Monclin

Section 3. Sucrochemistry

Chapter 10. Sucrochemistry: Current trends and future prospects - pp. 192-203

Gerard L. Descotes

Chapter 11. Themally stable network and uncrosslinked poly (methyl -methacylates) and poystyrenes containging sucrose-based co-monomers and additives. A mechanistic proposal to explain the thermal stabilization of some vinyl polymers by saccharide ethers - pp. 204-234

Navzer D. Sachinvala, Redford Ju and Morton H. Litt

Chapter 12. Biodegradable polymeric materials based on polysaccharides derivatives - pp. 235-263

Emo Chiellini and Robert Solaro

Chapter 13. Oxidation and carbozymethylation of sucrose and inulin - pp. 264-293

H. van Bekkum, D.L. Verraest, A.E.J. de Nooy, A.C. Besemer and J.A. Peters