Beet-sugar handbook.9780471763475 Beet-sugar handbook. Asadi, Mosen. Wiley-Interscience 2007 866 pages $160.00 Hardcover TP390 The cultivation of sugar beets sugar beet, variety of beet used commercially as a source of sugar. sugar beet Variety of beet (Beta vulgaris) that accounts for about two-fifths of global sugar production, making it second only to sugarcane as a source of the world's sugar. and the production of beet sugar beet sugar: see beet; sucrose. employs about 77,000 people in the US, and it is likely this industry touches nearly everyone in the country in some way. Expert practitioner Asadi gives chemists, technologists, students, researchers and farmers the basics on beet-sugar technology, farming and processing, laboratory testing and the basic science and mathematics necessary to a full understanding of what beet sugar is and does. He and his contributors cover all aspects of the technology, farming and processing and describes quality control, ion-exchange resin ion-exchange resin Any of a wide variety of synthetic polymers containing positively or negatively charged sites that can interact with or bind to an ion of opposite charge from a surrounding solution. , the juice-softening and molasses-softening processes, the intricacies of refining refining, any of various processes for separating impurities from crude or semifinished materials. It includes the finer processes of metallurgy, the fractional distillation of petroleum into its commercial products, and the purifying of cane, beet, and maple sugar raw cane sugar cane sugar: see sucrose. in a beet-sugar factory, environmental considerations of factories, the work of the sugar laboratory and method of analysis, and the basics of science related to sugar technology. Asadi is especially careful to make this suitable for readers for whom English is a non-native language. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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