Patent ID: 8394202

Claim:
A method for manufacturing sugar from sugarcane, the method consisting of steps of: dosing biocides on sugarcane during cane preparation and milling to kill about 90% of microbes; heating juice, obtained from a mill, to 70° C.; subsequently, neutralizing the juice; subsequent to the neutralizing step, heating the neutralized juice to about 105° C.; subsequent to the neutralizing step, passing the heated neutralized juice through clarifiers or settling tanks; concentrating the neutralized juice by evaporating to boil-off water from the neutralized juice to obtain syrup of the neutralized juice having about 60% solids; crystallizing the syrup, obtained in the concentrating step, to obtain a liquor; separating sugar from the liquor obtained in the crystallizing step; and washing and drying the sugar obtained in the separating step; whereby the sugar produced is about neutral and contain substantially zero amount of sulfur.