Sugarcane is a member of the grass family and is valued chiefly for the juices that can be extracted from its stems. The raw sugar that is produced from these juices is later refined into white granular sugar. As a sugarcane plant matures throughout the growing season, the amount of total sucrose in the cane increases. Most of this sucrose production occurs when the plant has fully matured and begins to ripen.
One specification is the Abbé Mark II refractometer. However, for me I would be interested to know whether there is acceptable threshold of % Brix
For POL% you can use a calorimeter. It uses filtered sugarcane juice with lead acetate (well in some Institutes). The vials are inserted into the machine and it gives you direct reading for POL. Recovery could then be calculated easily from Brix and POL using formula.
Using digital instruments Brixometer, sacharimeter, with Java ratio You calculate pol%cane . ERS= pol%cane - 3 (supposed losses)
Dear Brother......please see the following formulas:
- Brix=TSS (Total Soluble Solids), Pol%=Sucrose% (
Dr Vikrant Singh ·
as you mentioned above, you mentioned several equations. please, I hope to write the references of each one
thanks for everything
with compliment
Prof Dr Ahmed Ebieda
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