Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a method for producing granules for ceramic production, the method having high productivity and making it possible to obtain a ceramic which, when produced by press molding the granules and firing the resulting press molded product, has physical properties kept from lowering. The present invention is characterized by including: a slurry preparation step of preparing a slurry including a mixture containing a powder of an inorganic compound, a binder, and a solvent; a granulation step of introducing the slurry into a spray drying device to form a granulated substance containing the inorganic compound; an exhaust step of exhausting an atmospheric gas within the spray drying device via a cyclone having a surface made of ceramic; and a step of mixing a fine powder, which has been recovered by the cyclone during the exhaust step, with the granulated substance obtained in the granulation step.

Abstract: A method for preparing a sugar syrup having high fructose content, is implemented using at least one fruit containing sorbitol, particularly apples, pears, plums, prunes, peaches, nectarines, apricots and grapes, from which a first juice is extracted. The first juice is processed in order to obtain a clarified and demineralised sweet juice having a colour lower than 45 ICUMSA and having a conductometric ash content lower than 0.4%. The clarified and demineralised sweet juice is then processed in order to hydrolyse the saccharose into fructose and glucose. The method further includes an isomerisation of the glucose in fructose, and removing the sorbitol naturally occurring in the starting material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a lecithinated sugar composition wherein lecithin is present in the sugar composition at not more than about 200 parts per million. Also disclosed is a process for increasing the yield of raw sugar from a clarified sugar juice stream. Further disclosed is a process for increasing the yield of refined sugar from raw sugar.

Abstract: Disclosed is a lecithinated sugar composition wherein lecithin is present in the sugar composition at not more than about 200 parts per million. Also disclosed is a process for increasing the yield of raw sugar from a clarified sugar juice stream. Further disclosed is a process for increasing the yield of refined sugar from raw sugar.

Abstract: Crystalline fructose, from sugar cane sucrose, having particles composed of microcrystals which exhibit a narrow size distribution with a mean diameter of 250 to 350 microns. A process comprising chemical conversion of sucrose by acid hydrolysis; chromatographic separation of the fructose from the glucose; preparing fructose-rich syrup; crystallization of the fructose from an aqueous alcoholic medium, recovery by centrifugation; washing and; drying of the crystals.

Abstract: Method for producing refined sugar from sugared juice, such as raw juice from sugar cane or from sugar beet, containing sugar and impurities, which comprises the operations of: tangential filtration of the sugared juice in order to obtain a retentate and a filtrate, softening of the filtrate in order to obtain a softened filtrate, concentration of the softened filtrate in order to obtain a softened syrup, chromatography of the softened syrup in order to obtain an extract enriched in sugars and a raffinate enriched in impurities, crystallisation of the extract in two or more crystallisation/separation steps in order to obtain refined sugar and a run-off, and combination of the run-off with the softened syrup in order that they are both subjected to the chromatography operation.

Abstract: A process and device for the crystallization of sugar syrup is described. Sugar syrup is cooked to provide a massecuite. Thereafter, the massecuite is subjected to at least one stage of continuous mixing under vacuum to promote crystallization of the massecuite. The crystallized massecuite is then separated to separate the crystals from the mother liquor. The mother liquor is thereafter divided into a first discharge which is water syrup poor and a second discharge which is water syrup rich. Substantially all of the first discharge is recycled to the continuous mixing stage under vacuum. Accordingly, the massecuite and the crystals are subjected to a treatment having continuity during mixing under vacuum to maintain homogeneity of the sugar crystals.

Abstract: A mass constituted by glucose syrup and anhydrous dextrose crystals is led to pass through from top to bottom and with malaxation of crystallization zone 1 of axis preferably substantially vertical in which said mass is subject to a temperature gradient globally decreasing by 0.2.degree. to 2.degree. C./hour from top to bottom possibly modulated, said zone being supplied through pipe 2 with glucose syrup and through pipe 7 with mass subject to crystallization M taken up at 8 and recycled at 9.

Abstract: Method for the production of anhydrous crystalline fructose in which the mass M subjected to crystallization traverses from top to bottom, continuously and with malaxation, a vessel 1 inside which it is subjected to a temperature gradient decreasing overall from top to bottom, the crystalline mass being recovered continuously at the bottom of the vessel, means being provided to take up at an intermediate level 8 a fraction of the mass M and to recycle it to a level 9 situated in the vicinity of the upper end of the vessel.

Abstract: A process for crystallizing an aqueous fructose feed stream uses an alcohol mixture which may be crystallized in either a vacuum evaporator chamber or a cooled atmospheric pressure crystallizer. Various cooling cycles are described. When the atmospheric pressure crystallizer is used, the mixture is stirred continuously; therefore, the temperature of the mixture is held low enough to cause crystals to form, but also high enough not to be too viscous to stir and pump.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of crystalline fructose. The method comprises the steps of adding ethanol to a concentrated fructose solution; evaporating the mixture to a degree of supersaturation of at least 1.02; and adding anhydrous fructose seed crystals; removing ethanol-water azeotrope at a reduced pressure while maintaining the solution at a substantially constant temperature ranging from 50.degree. C. to 75.degree. C. so as to crystallize fructose; and recovering crystallized fructose, e.g. by centrifugation.

Abstract: A mass constituted by glucose syrup and anhydrous dextrose crystals is led to pass through from top to bottom and with malaxation a crystallization zone 1 of axis preferably substantially vertical in which said mass is subject to a temperature gradient globally decreasing by 0.2.degree. to 2.degree. C./hour from top to bottom possibly modulated, said zone being supplied through pipe 2 with glucose syrup and through pipe 7 with mass subject to crystallization M taken up at 8 and recycled at 9.

Abstract: In the field of automatic boiling in a pan in which the consistency of massecuite is controlled in accordance with method steps, intermittent boiling is used as an effective way to improve the boiling time and quality of products with supplying of appropriate amounts of water or solution into the pan to control the consistency each time it has reached a set value. This invention provides a novel method for controlling the consistency of the massecuite, wherein two curves are established defining the upper limit and lower limit, respectively, of an allowable range of consistency and within which the consistency is maintained, whereby a product of high quality is obtained safely, simply and within a minimum amount of time.

Abstract: A process for continuous dextrose-monohydrate crystallization whereby an evaporated concentrated liquor is mixed with a recirculated dilute phase to form a feeding liquor. At least a portion of this feeding liquor is fed through the shearing zone of a homogenizer. The sheared mother liquor is then fed to a vertical cooling-crystallizer to form a suspension. The suspension is separated into a concentrated phase and a dilute phase. The dilute phase separated from the suspension is employed as the dilute phase which is mixed with the evaporated concentrated liquor.

Abstract: The production of graft crystals for use in seeding sugar boiling brines is achieved by means of adding milled sugar of a grain size of 5-20 micrometer to a sugar solution with a supersaturation number of 1.12-1.20 and a volume of 1.8-2.2% of the final volume, homogenization of the mixture by means of a circulation pump and control of the crystallization by maintaining the pressure in the crystallization unit such that the liquid evaporates and the temperature decreasing maintaining the supersaturation number in the range of 1.12-1.20.

Abstract: To increase the percentage of crystallized lactose obtained from lactoserum substantially without noticeably increasing investment costs or energy consumption, the first phase of crystallization is effectuated in a continuous crystallization stage wherein seeds of crystallization are added to the lactoserum to initiate crystallization, the lactoserum is concentrated, the concentrated lactoserum is brought to a supersaturated state and maintained at this stage by evaporation to obtain a mixture of mother liquor and lactose crystals, which is subjected to two centrifugal drying stages to obtain a first portion of large lactose crystals and a second portion of such crystals grown by cooling.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a process for obtaining fructose-containing solid sugar from fructose-containing liquid sugar by the steps of dehydration, aging and solidification. In the step of dehydration, fructose-containing liquid sugar is brought in the presence of an organic solvent exhibiting azeotropic behavior with respect to water, in contact with a stream of gas causing no denaturation of fructose-containing sugar to remove moisture contained therein. The fructose-containing liquid sugar obtained from said step of dehydration is subject to seed crystal addition treatment in the following step of aging. Lastly, the aged fructose-containing sugar obtained from said step of aging is introduced into anhydrous alcohol for solidification.

Abstract: A seeding magma for seeding a solution of a crystallizable product is prepared from a suspension the crystals in a liquid phase. This suspension is delivered into a continuously rotating conical basket of a centrifugal drier. The basket has an upper output end and a screen is mounted therein. Rotation of the basket causes the suspension to be subjected to centrifugal forces causing crystals of a size interior to the mesh size of the screen to pass with the liquid phase through the screen and larger crystals to be retained on the screen and centrifugally displaced towards the upper output end and ejected therefrom. These crystals are forcefully projected against an impact surface disposed around the output end of the basket whereby the projected crystals are crushed on impact with the surface. The crushed crystals are recycled into the suspension delivered into the basket while the liquid phase with the crystals passed through the screen is removed for preparing the seeding magma.

Abstract: A method of forming dried, solid particulate products from carbohydrate solutions, including complex carbohydrate solutions in the presence of recycled dried product using dielectric heating to supply heat of water vaporization.

Abstract: Sugar is crystallized from aqueous solutions thereof by spraying a supersaturated sugar solution or syrup at elevated temperature into a high velocity air stream, at ambient temperature, whereby crystallization and drying occur rapidly and the sugar crystals are entrained in the air stream and carried away from the spray zone in pneumatic transport.

Abstract: A process of preparing free-flowing particles of fructose with or without dextrose, which process comprises: admixing a high fructose corn syrup with ethanol, the corn syrup and ethanol of defined moisture content, to form a clear homogeneous solution; seeding the solution with crystalline fructose and recovering free-flowing particles of crystalline fructose from the seeded solution.

Abstract: Process, centrifuge and installation for producing crystallization seeds, as for the sugar industry. A suspension of crystals produced from the seeded solution is subjected to a scheme of centrifugal separations whereby seeds falling within a predetermined size range are obtained for seeding the solution.

Abstract: A method for forming dried, solid, particulate product from complex sugar solutions by drying the solution in a current of heated air and in the presence of separately introduced recycled dried solids which have undergone additional conditioning to have a moisture content of not greater than about 0.5 percent therein.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously crystallizing sugar, both by developing crystals from sugar solutions and by exhausting solutions of mother liquor from a massecuite, or cooked mass, by means of evaporation of said solutions over seed crystals, said apparatus comprising a hollow horizontal cylinder which in its upper portion and over its entire length has connected to itself along a slot a rectangular cover which thus forms a single body; means for heating the exterior of the hollow cylindrical body; means for producing a helicoidal movement in the mass being processed; means for connecting the hollow cylindrical body by means of the rectangular cover to a source of low pressure; means for feeding into the front end a controlled quantity of a solution of sugar or of a massecuite; means for feeding controlled replacement quantities of sucrose solution or of mother liquors to replace the water evaporated and the material crystallized, and to increase the volume of the mass being processed, and means for controlled

Abstract: A vacuum pan is controlled by directly monitoring the total solids concentration of a boiling solution. A preferred type of process relates the change in concentration of sugar in a massecuite to the growth rate and increase in the number of crystals, and uses this relationship to control the rate of growth of the crystals by setting temperature and pressure to correspond to the rate of crystal growth desired. Water is evaporated from the pan solution at reduced temperature and pressure. Massecuite is withdrawn from the pan, and split into two streams: (1) a first stream wherein the mother liquor is separated from the sugar crystals and analyzed to determine the total sucrose content of the stream, and (2) a second stream which is analyzed to determine the count and size of the crystals. The sum-total of the two streams is used to determine the total concentration of sugar. Readings taken over definite intervals determine the rate of growth of the crystals.

Abstract: Homogeneous, solidified molasses can be successfully obtained by concentrating under heat molasses, oils and fats and/or higher fatty acid esters at a temperature of between 110.degree. and 175.degree. C in the presence of alkali in such an amount as to regulate the pH value of the molasses in the range of between 8 and 12.

Abstract: A process for preparing dried, solid, particulate fructose products from fructose solutions by drying the solution in a current of heated air and in the presence of separately introduced recycled dried product solids.

Abstract: A process for producing solid sugars wherein separate feeds of sucrose solution and of fine sucrose particles are dispersed in a current of heated air, whereby the particles are coated with the solution which is evaporated leaving a solid product containing substantially all the sugar fed to the process.