Estimations cane sugar

Estimation of Glucose or Cane Sugar in Solution by means of Fehling s Solution... 

The most commonly used sweeteners are sucrose, glucose, fructose, sorbitol, and glycerin. Using sucrose (sugar) as a standard, with 100 units of sweetness. Table 6 lists the relative intensities of other sweeteners. Sweetness intensity changes with concentration. It has been estimated that the sweetness of glucose relative to cane sugar is 53 at a concentration of 8% but... 

Production of cane sugar in 1999/2000 is estimated at 95.4 X 10 mt (- sucrose world market). The major producing countries are in Central and South America (Brazil) as well as in Asia (India) (- sucrose world market). 

An estimated 15,000,000 acres of land throughout the world are devoted to growing sugar cane. Individual holdings may vary from fractional acreage to more than 100,000 acres. It is the principal crop in many tropical countries as well as in both temperate zones in certain favorable areas. 

The sugar cane borer, Diatraea saccharalis, is the most serious sugar cane insect pest in Louisiana. Ryania and cryolite (sodium fluoaluminate) were dusted on 65,000 acres in 1953 at a total cost of 600,000. Borers in other areas are controlled to a certain extent by natural or introduced parasites. Puerto Rico estimates an annual loss of 2,500,000 from borers. Serious losses are incurred in other areas, but no chemical controls have been adopted. 

Rat control is needed on an estimated million acres of cane in the countries mentioned and to a lesser degree on much of the remaining 7,000,000 acres under consideration. One pound of warfarin should treat 8 to 10 acres of sugar cane. Maximum demand would be under 1,000,000 pounds, and the probable demand would be about 100,000 pounds. 

Loss of sucrose due to inversion by bacteria during the time between crushing the cane and processing the juice is considered serious. A very conservative estimate places the annual loss for Cuba, if uncontrolled, at 75,000 long tons of sugar. This loss can be drastically reduced by spraying Steri-Chlor 4X into the juice immediately after extraction at the rate of 10 pounds per 1000 tons of cane. The practice is now common and offers a potential market for approximately 450,000 pounds of such a product in Cuba and probably at least that much in other areas. Demands in- the near future should approximate 250,000 pounds and eventually should approach a maximum of 1,000,000 pounds. 

World centrifugal production for 2003-04 was over 142 million tons. About 60 percent of this came from cane, and about 40 percent from beet. World sugar consumption for 2003-04 is estimated at 140 million tons [1]. 

Lobry de Brusm and Alberda van Ekenstein stated categorically that they had found glutose in cane molasses, and an analytical method for its quantitative estimation was published by them which was based on the nonfermentability of that sugar. That the unfermentable reducing... 

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