The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-12-08
ELIMINATE WATER
Secret 0FPROCESS
Same Method May Be Used For
Extraction Of Sucrose From
Number One MoIasses
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teal absence of water and run into
mall containers, there to solidify and
give time for the sucrose to crystalline,
and az the close of said crop an appa
ratns for reducing the solidiied mo-
asses to a magma that would flow, to-
yether with a special thirty.iuch high
speed centrifugal for separating the
material, were installed and put into
operation. Tho result being that a
tuantity of purified messecuite, sufi
lent to make q small strike in one Of
he vacuum pans was produced, Thu
'trike was boiled to string proof and
un into coolers, after some ten OF
twelVe days standing IN the cooIers
he msssecuite was dried in an ordi
AIRY thirty-inch Weston centrifugal
md produced lowgrsde sugar, a sam
Il % which is open for inspection.
without going into detail as to the
mechanical difficulties encountered
which are inseparable from pioneering
work such as this has been, It might
be said, that from a so-called final
nolasses having an apparent purity Of
'hirty-fve per, cent, a massecuite hav-
ing a polarization Of as high as fifty
eight, and purity OF as high as sixty
four per cent, has been produced, with
= waste molasses of as low as twenty
two and a half per cent polarization,
md purity Of 1913 per cent.
at must be understood that these
agures are not average, but the fact
II, such figures having been reached
is worth recording.
Three. Facts Demonstrated
"The average Of large number Of
records of results from solidifed molas
'es having a purity Of thirty.6ve per
,ent, and after treating and separating,
e: massecuite; forty-fve per cent
ncrose, fifty per cent purity; and
waste molasses, twenty seven per cent,
merosej thirty per cent purity
The following therefore, can be
stated to have been demonstrated:
Parst--That what In commonly called
''flfiAl molasses'' when boiled to say
ninety -nine per cent brix. will develop
! Quantity Of very small grains repre-
senting practically the whole Of the
ucrose present in the molasses.
y Second That this grained sucrose
IAN be recovered In large quantities
When suitable equipment Is provided
Third-That this rec overed sucrose
convertible into q marketable pro
iuct.
"Given properly designed and
operated equipment the cost of recover
nc this sugar should be -, no greater
han the cost off, recovering third or
| tho
operations are all mechanical and may
pe almost automatic, there being no
,pecial skill required in boiling the
nOlasses to ninety nine per cent brlx
md one man could attend to a number
# the centrifugal separating machines
tIt appears to be fully proven from
he results which have been obtained
hat il is not glucose, gums, or ash
which may be in molasses which, either
ingly or in combination, prevent the
icrose therein from crystalliZing, hui
olely the water contained in the said
nolasses; and as on an average one
art Of water will hold in solution two
,arts Of sucrose, it seems clear that a
nolasses containing any considerable"
'ereentage of water cannot be made to
Weld up it's sucrose in any other man.
YER than by removing the water, and
hereby allowing the sucrose to crys-
'aliize.
HSince it has been shown in the
foregoing that molasses treated as de-
,eribe1 will yield sucrose, it seems to
Ie safe to predict that a recovery of at
east one-h8lf of the suCrose now lost
N the so-called "fnal molasses is
,oayshla an1 NAV ha Fonlizad in the