In the South African sugar industry, internal tissue of sugarcane stalks attacked by Eldana saccharina Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) often turns a red colour as a result of secondary infection by various organisms. In the factory, less sugar is extracted from these sections because sucrose is inverted to glucose. The length of stalk that is red thus provides an indication of the amount of sug...

Introduction A thorough investigation of all equipment in a sugar factory covered by this title would result in a monumental publication. This relatively modest paper purports to draw attention to a few specific aspects of economy in juice heating. Considering the abundance of comprehensive articles on liquid-vapour and liquidliquid heat exchangers appearing in chemical engineering journals it ...

The food industry has long known that "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in the most delightful way." And cane sugar had been America's most delightful sweetener of choice, that is, until the 1970s, when the much less expensive corn-derived sweeteners like maltodextrin and high-fructose corn syrup were developed. While regular table sugar (sucrose) is 50% fructose and 50% glucose, ...

A notable feature of the agricultural policy of the South African Sugar Industry is that much of our plantation practice still derives from the arbitrary ordinance of tradition or custom, casual observation, and so-called experience. Sugar cane cultivation is an occupation requiring, for its success, the utmost precision both in conception and performance; and further that precision necessitate...