{"title":"New high bay warehouse as a result of a general logistics study","authors":"Manuel Skeisgerski, Markus Bingel","doi":"10.36961/si28807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si28807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77567045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of mechanical vs. chemical weed control in sugar beet – Environmental effects: soil erosion, earthworms, CO2e-emissions","authors":"O. Fishkis, H. Koch","doi":"10.36961/si28805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si28805","url":null,"abstract":"Chemical weed control is widely criticized because of its potential ecotoxicological risks. However, the environmental effects of mechanical weeding have not been studied yet. This study aims to evaluate the effects of hoeing, herbicide spraying and combined hoeing-spraying in sugar beet on soil erosion, earthworm abundance, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Field trials were carried out in Lower Saxony on five sugar beet fields from 2019 to 2021. Runoff and soil erosion were measured by means of rainfall simulation on 2-m2 subplots after weed control. The earthworm abundance was determined in autumn using formalin expulsion. The resources consumption and GHG emissions of each weeding strategy were estimated using KTBL and Biograce online tools. The earthworm abundance was not affected by weeding strategy in most cases. Cumulative runoff and soil loss were six and eight times lower after hoeing compared to herbicide spraying, but only if the soil was crusted before rainfall simulation; otherwise, weed control did not affect soil erosion. The GHG emissions for mechanical and combined mechanical-chemical weed control were higher by factor 2.5 and 1.7, respectively, as compared to the reference chemical weed control. Hence, hoeing is, though non-toxic and erosion-retarding, the weeding strategy with the highest carbon footprint.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76919294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sweetening the deal: benefiting from smart technology through smart finance","authors":"B. Langhans, Kai-Otto Landwehr","doi":"10.36961/si28808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si28808","url":null,"abstract":"Authors look at the symbiosis of smart technology and smart financing in the modernization, automation and digital transformation of (production) processes in the sugar industry.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"2 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72478368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuous chromatography applied to the purification of sugars: a proven separation technology with multiple industrial applications","authors":"M. Chauve, A. Gonin, D. Paillat","doi":"10.36961/si28686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si28686","url":null,"abstract":"Low-pressure chromatography is a widely implemented purification technique in the sugar industry. It allows for the separation of complex mixtures with different affinities based on a stationary phase, composed of ion exchange resins, and a mobile phase, which is generally water. Industrially, it is implemented in columns with volumes that can reach several hundred cubic meters. The real-life performance for the purification of 2G sugars and organic acids and the advantage of coupling chromatography and nanofiltration for the production of high purity fructose will be explained further in this article.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87850879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges and potential applications of genome editing in sugar beet","authors":"O. Eini, M. Varrelmann","doi":"10.36961/si28687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si28687","url":null,"abstract":"Genome editing (GE) based on CRISPR/Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein) is rapidly being developed for gene targeting in eukaryotes including plants. CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing is precise, target specific, transgene-free, heritable and enables multiplex target modification in a short time. There are several examples for successful applications of GE for improving crop productivity. However, genome editing tools have not yet been used for sugar beet to tackle the negative effects of e.g. abiotic and biotic stresses on the crop production. Despite the constant progress in CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing, the efficacy of precise genome editing through homologous DNA recombination (HDR), required to modify, insert or replace traits, is very low and challenging. Here, authors present several CRISPR/Cas-based approaches by considering recent advances and challenges for their application to improve crops including sugar beet.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88137263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of mechanical and chemical weed control in sugar beet – Impact on pest insects and epigaeic predatory arthropods","authors":"Jessie Weller, J. Lehmhus","doi":"10.36961/si28545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si28545","url":null,"abstract":"In 2019 to 2021, effects of different weed control strategies in sugar beet on pests and beneficial insects were examined at seven locations in Lower Saxony. The different strategies included conventional spraying, band spraying in the row together with mechanical hoeing between the rows and mechanical hoeing between the rows along with hand hoeing in the row. The various beneficial and pest insects were caught using different trapping methods. For the majority of arthropod populations, either no differences or hardly any significant differences were reported between the three different weed control strategies. Significant effects could only be found on single dates, but these were also not directed in the same direction. According to the results from the photoeclector catches and visual assessments, hoeing three times and chemical weed control had comparable effects to the on the arthropod populations evaluated in this study.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83700481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Benchmark study of evaporator cleaning practices in Louisiana cane sugar factories","authors":"Stephania Imbachi-Ordoñez","doi":"10.36961/si28544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si28544","url":null,"abstract":"Evaporator cleaning to remove the scale is one of the critical operations to maintain the efficiency of the factories and it has been an ongoing problem in Louisiana (LA) cane sugar factories since the processing season is very short and a very fast and efficient cleaning process must be done without equipment or specialized personnel. The aim of this study was to provide more information to the LA sugar factories about the different and appropriate practices to clean evaporators and their efficiencies. During the 2020 LA processing season, a benchmarking of the LA cleaning practices for evaporator cleaning was done, scale samples from 8 factories were collected and characterized, and scale dissolution tests comparing cleaning practices were done. The evaporator cleaning procedure is similar in all LA factories, the main differences are based on the concentration and boiling times of the chemicals. Scale in LA factories was mainly formed of CaO, SiO2, and P2O5, and between 33% to 86% of the inorganic components were present in the amorphous (disordered) phase. The characteristic of the scale played an important role in the efficiency of the cleaning practice and the consumption of the chemicals. The scales of the factories with the highest consumption of chemicals had the highest contents of CaO and Na2O. EDTA broke down the scale samples with high content of oxalates, while acids broke down the scale with a heterogeneous inorganic composition (silica, hydroxyapatite, carbonates, and amorphous components).","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87796267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Filtration principles and troubleshooting","authors":"J. De Bruijn","doi":"10.36961/si28453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si28453","url":null,"abstract":"Removal of the insoluble solids from the carbonatation juices in juice purification is often the bottle-neck in the beet slicing capacity of a beet sugar factory. It is crucial to produce good filterable precipitates in the different steps of juice purification, which in fact depends on the achieved particle size and particle size distribution of the formed precipitates. The principle of filtration will be described wherein permeability and thickness of the filter cake, as well as the juice viscosity are the most important parameters. \u0000The most likely causes of problems in the filtration of the 1st carbonatation, respectively 2nd carbonatation slurry will be presented. In addition, recommendations are given on how filtration problems can be solved. Some alternative ways of processing in order to get around particular filtration problems will be mentioned too.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76620593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EU study: After rollercoaster period, sugar sector on the way to balance","authors":"","doi":"10.36961/si28474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si28474","url":null,"abstract":"The European Commission’s DG Agriculture published a study entitled “Study on the adaptation strategies of the sugar supply chain after the end of the sugar quotas.” The 267-page analysis prepared for the Commission by Italian agri-food intelligence company Areté and IHS Markit aims at “a sound and comprehensive analysis on the EU sugar sector’s capacity to adapt to its post-quota environment, as well as on its ability to respond to varying market and production conditions”. The study investigates in particular the consequences for the EU sugar sector of the end of quotas assessing whether and to what extent the existing adaptation strategies implemented in the sector ensure an appropriate level of resilience against current and future threats, also considering the context of the international sugar market and its developments.\u0000We publish here a compilation of the main data and the conclusions stated by the authors. At the end, we also include the critical statements of two important players of the German sugar industry.\u0000The main themes of the study are:\u0000– The structure and competitiveness of the EU sugar sector and the organizational arrangements its supply chain.\u0000– The threats to which the EU sugar sector is confronted; the existing risk management strategies, their use and effectiveness.\u0000– The institutional setting of the market and EU policy instruments available for the sugar sector.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80140042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}