Summary of "How It's Made, Sugar" Video
Sugar is harvested from many different sugar cane farms. Sugar comes from sugar canes as a sweet juice. Sugar canes look like bamboo that can measure up to 6 m high. Machines are used to harvest the sugar canes from its base. The cut cane is then transported to the sugar mill for processing. The canes are placed onto a conveyor belt that takes the cane through two separate washes. Hammers break the canes down into smaller pieces. Canes go through a milling tandem that extracts the juice from the canes. The juice goes through a process called sulfurtation that bleaches the juice. Alkalization is the process where the juice is mixed with lime solution for about 6 hours. The juice follows other processes that clarifies the juice. Microscopic sucrose crystals suspended in alcohol is added to the syrup and is left to boil in large vacuum pans that form sugar crystals. The sugar crystals are put into a large dryer. Hot air is blown to bring the sugar humidity level down to 0.02% standard for table sugar. Sugar crystals are then carried and poured down a cute that brings it to the automated packaging machine that fills a 2 kilo plastic bag. They are then ready to be sold in stores around you. ("How It's Made, Sugar." , 2010)
Simple Manufacturing Process Diagram
("Purification of Sugar", n.d.)
Manufacturing Process Pictures :
( "Cane-image sticks" , 2010) (" Sugarcane -growing" , 2010) ( "Sugarcane- planting" , 2010)
( "Sugarcane-Harvest" , 2010) ( "Sugarcane-Trains" , 2010) ( "Sugarcane-Mill" , 2010)
("Sugarcane Mill Conveyer", 2010) ("Sugarcane Mill Crushed" ,2010) ("Sugarcane-mill-conveyer-sugar",2010)
("sugarcane-storage-bulk-sugar-terminal",2010) ("sugarcane-export-ship" ,2010)
( " Sugar packages", n.d.)