sugar refinery
Cane processing plant
A sugar refinery is an industrial facility that processes raw sugar into refined white sugar.
Raw sugar arrives from mills that have extracted juice from sugarcane or sugar beets; the refinery removes impurities, molasses, and color through filtering, crystallization, and other processes: The sugar refinery employed hundreds of workers during harvest season.
- centrifugationSpinning to separate densities
- sugarcaneSucrose-yielding tropical grass
- plantation eraEpoch of slave-based agriculture
- molassesSyrup from cane processing
- wastewater treatmentCleaning used liquid for reuse
crystallization · treacle · sucrose · carbonation · filtration · factory floor · industrial processing · evaporation · emissions control · cane juice · energy efficiency · bagging · drying · muscovado · glucose syrup · trade tariffs · high-fructose corn syrup · packaging
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