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Treatment of Raw Cane Juice with Organo Bentonite and Ultrafiltration Membranes for White Sugar Production

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Productivity and efficiency in sugar industry operations

Abstract

Polysulfone (PS)  ultrafiltration (UF)-membrane with Molecular Weight Cut Off (MWCO) 100kD was examined with the aim of improving the sugarcane juice clarity while a modified bentonite (organo-bentonite) by benzalkonium chloride (BAC) was used as adsorbent for reducing colour and turbidity instead of sulphitation process. Factors influencing the adsorption capacity of organo-bentonite, such as BAC concentration, adsorbent dosage, pH, contact time and temperature beside factors that influence the ultra-filtration process like transmembrane pressure and temperature were systematically investigated and discussed. The results of analysis indicated that the adsorption capacity of organo-bentonite increases with increasing BAC concentration, adsorbent dosage, temperature and with decreasing pH while membrane flux increases with increasing transmembrane pressure and temperature. The optimum conditions were adjusted at a constant reaction time (10 min), temperature 75 °C, pH 5.0, BAC concentration of amount equal to100% of cation exchange capacity (CEC) of bentonite and organo-bentonite dose (0.6 g/L) which were determined on minimization of colour, turbidity, ash content and invert sugar and maximization of  purity. At this optimum point: colour, turbidity, ash%, reducing sugars%sugar and purity were found to be 7635 IU420, 3.0 NTU, 0.474%, 4.8% and 85%, respectively. Also the clarified juice quality obtained by the treatment was improved greatly when compared with conventional limed–sulphated  juice as the colour and turbidity in the clarified juice were removed by the rate of 32% and 94%, respectively.

DOI

10.21608/esugj.2020.219224

Keywords

Raw cane juice, Organo-bentonite, Ultra-filtration, Membranes

Authors

First Name

Abdel-Aal

Last Name

Gaber

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science and Faculty of Sugar and Integrated Industries, Assiut University, Egypt

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amabdelaal@hotmail.com

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First Name

Samy

Last Name

El-Sayiad

MiddleName

I.

Affiliation

Food Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt

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First Name

Salah.

Last Name

Masoud

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Egyptian Sugar and Integrated Industries Company (ESIIC), Al-Hawamdeya, Egypt

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Ali

MiddleName

Sh.

Affiliation

Abo-Qurqas Sugar Factories, Minya, Egypt

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Volume

14

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0

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29272

Issue Date

2020-06-01

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2022-02-13

Publish Date

2020-06-01

Page Start

95

Page End

118

Print ISSN

2636-2694

Online ISSN

2636-283X

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2,178

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Publication Title

Egyptian Sugar Journal

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https://esugj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Treatment of Raw Cane Juice with Organo Bentonite and Ultrafiltration Membranes for White Sugar Production

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Created At

23 Jan 2023