Formation of sucrose crystallization centers and their growth in a vacuum apparatus

Abstract

The article considers sucrose crystallization as a mass transfer process, which is a phase transition from a liquid phase to a solid phase, and includes two main stages: the formation of crystallization centers and the growth of crystals to the desired size. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the development of existing theoretical and practical ideas about the formation of centers of crystallization of sucrose and their growth in the massecuite mass, the analysis of the main factors affecting this process. On the basis of the studies obtained, a method has been developed to improve the efficiency of the technology for boiling the massecuite of the first crystallization, which refers to the methods of boiling the massecuite I crystallization with intermediate centrifugation of the massecuite. A feature of the method is the formation of crystallization centers in the massecuite by their spontaneous formation. The analysis of the obtained research results showed that the work on the proposed method makes it possible to increase the efficiency of boiling massecuite I crystallization, to ensure an increase in the yield and quality of crystalline white sugar.