In 1991, Marian Mill was upgraded to handle cane from its historical cane area and that of Cattle Creek, moving from 450 tch to a nominal 700 tch. The secondary juice heater system was expanded to provide seven parallel heaters. These heaters are all situated very low...
Recent advances in cane analysis techniques using Near Infrared (NIR) technology enable mills to measure cane constituents for quantities of between 4 and 6 tonnes cane (depending on crushing rates and NIR scan times). These constituents provide information required...
In 2001, Pleystowe Mill produced approximately 21 000 tonnes of QHP sugar as a trial. Prior to the season, valving and pipework were installed to allow diversion of the higher purity portion of the B molasses stream to A molasses. This paper describes the installation...
