{"title":"International competitiveness of value chains for sugar beet and sugarcane: a combined approach to estimate production and processing costs in Brazil and Germany","authors":"S. Balieiro, T. Witte, A. Lehnberger","doi":"10.36961/si23452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si23452","url":null,"abstract":"With the liberalization of the European sugar sector, the industry is free to export sugar to the world market, competing with other sugarcane producing countries. To understand competitiveness, it is imperative to compare total production costs, including both raw material (farm) and processing costs (mill). Therefore, farmlevel production costs from agri benchmark combined with an engineering approach to calculate processing costs were merged to calculate sugar production costs in Germany and Brazil. The necessary data related to investment costs and technical coefficients was obtained in collaboration with BMA. Results show that processing one ton of white sugar (excluding raw material costs) from sugarcane in Brazil is more than USD30/t cheaper than processing sugar beet in Germany. Including raw material costs and the sales of byproducts, white sugar production in Brazil has a total cost advantage of USD112/t over German factories. Key differences in production costs are associated with labor (20%), depreciation (20%) and energy costs (40%). The findings indicate that even with equivalent raw material costs, the lower net processing costs are a major competitive advantage for Brazilian sugar producers. The combination of the typical farm approach and the dynamic engineering model can be applied to other regions, allowing for the estimation of regional production and shifts in global sugar supply.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"62 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72367759","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":"Method development for the determination of textural properties of sugar beet roots","authors":"Gunnar Kleuker, C. Hoffmann","doi":"10.36961/si23306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si23306","url":null,"abstract":"The harvest of sugar beet leads to root tip breakage and surface damage through mechanical impacts, which increase storage losses. For the determination of textural properties of sugar beet roots with a texture analyzer a reliable method description is missing. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of washing, soil tare, storage period from washing until measurement, sample distribution and number of roots on puncture and compression measurements. For this purpose, in 2017 comprehensive tests were conducted with sugar beet roots grown in a greenhouse. In a second step these tests were carried out with different Beta varieties from a field trial, and in addition, a flexural test was included. Results show that the storage period after washing and the sample distribution had an influence on the puncture and compression strength. It is suggested to wash the roots by hand before the measurement and to determine the strength no later than 48 h after washing. For reliable and comparable results a radial distribution of measurement points around the widest circumference of the root is recommended for the puncture test. The sample position of the compression test had an influence on the compressive strength and therefore, needs to be clearly defined. For the puncture and the compression test it was possible to achieve stable results with a small sample size, but with increasing heterogeneity of the plant stand a higher number of roots is required. The flexural test showed a high variability and is, therefore, not recommended for the analysis of sugar beet textural properties.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83310211","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":"Past, present and future of sugar beet quality analysis: a mini review","authors":"Stefan Meldau, M. Burba, E. Hilscher","doi":"10.36961/si23305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si23305","url":null,"abstract":"Sugar beet quality analysis is an integral part of breeding and sugar beet processing and therefore contributes to the success of the beet sugar industry. This review summarizes the chronological development of important methods used for sugar beet quality analysis, with a special focus on the role that breeding companies, such as KWS, have played in establishing these methods. Finally, new technological advances are highlighted that provide possibilities to automate the analysis of quality parameters of fresh sugar beet outside of the laboratory.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84659304","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":"Dextran-induced modifications of calcium carbonate particles precipitated during carbonatation","authors":"K. Abraham, Liza Splett, E. Flöter","doi":"10.36961/si23369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si23369","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of high and low molecular mass dextran (T2000 and T40) on the size and shape of particles precipitated during carbonatation and their correlation with filtration performances were key to this study. Varying contents of T2000 and T40 dextran in sugar solutions corresponding to DS contents of thin juice were investigated. For particle size and shape analysis, static image analysis and laser particle size analysis were used. Both methods, static image analysis and laser diffraction, revealed that the presence of T2000 and T40 dextran leads to a higher amount of large-sized particles at the expense of small-sized particles, indicating pronounced agglomeration. The additional evaluation of shape parameters (circularity, roundness, solidity) obtained from static image analysis indicates that the agglomeration is oriented in the absence and in the presence of lower T40 dextran levels. Besides, non-oriented agglomeration, resulting in more round agglomerates with smoother surfaces, was found for samples loaded with T2000 dextran and high T40 dextran levels. Only the latter samples have shown to negatively affect the filtration performance. Thus, in the presence of T2000 dextran and high T40 dextran levels, the filtration was hampered. This appears to be mainly caused by a tighter packing of more round calcium carbonate agglomerates in the porous structure of the filter cake.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"892 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77025120","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":"Bericht über die Kampagne 2018/19 – Schweiz","authors":"T. Frankenfeld, Joachim Pfauntsch","doi":"10.36961/si23178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si23178","url":null,"abstract":"Aussaat bis Mitte April, ein bereits trockenes Frühjahr und ein extrem trockener Sommer bis in den Herbst führten in der Schweiz zu einem sehr schlechten Rübenertrag. Der zudem geringe Zuckergehalt hatte einen rekordtiefen Zuckerertrag zur Folge. Der sehr hohe Amino-N-Gehalt führte zu einer geringen Ausbeute und zu Produktions-beeinträchtigungen. In beiden Schweizer Werken mussten Störungen hingenommen werden.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85390778","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":"The 2018/19 beet campaign – Suiker Unie","authors":"Nico Antens","doi":"10.36961/si23177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si23177","url":null,"abstract":"As in the rest of Europe beet cultivation and the related beet quality was the main topic at Suiker Unie this campaign due to the very dry weather conditions. With a rather low beet yield as a result it was a short campaign of only 120 days in the Netherlands and 100 days at the Anklam factory in Germany. Despite the unusual beet quality and its related impact on the process, all factories had rather stable beet slicing rates. The beet cultivation and harvest, main investments and process disturbances of the 2018/19 campaign at the three factories Anklam (D), Dinteloord (NL) and Vierverlaten (NL) are discussed.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"55 3-4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72491583","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":"Evolution of demand for sugar in Polan","authors":"P. Szajner","doi":"10.36961/si23044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si23044","url":null,"abstract":"The accession of Poland to the EU resulted in significant changes in market regulations, and this had an important impact on the Polish sugar industry. The growth rate of demand was lower than that of production, and the sector became a net exporter. The structure of demand experienced significant changes as the consumption in households decreased, but demand is compensated for by the increased consumption in the food industry. The consumption of professional groups also varied strongly. The price increase due to EU accession, the influence of world market, and the supply fluctuations resulted in a high variability of sugar prices. The demand for sugar is characterised by low price flexibility.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84290620","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":"Beet washing in the French way","authors":"B. Bartels, Thomas Dhermy, Fabien Majchrzak","doi":"10.36961/si23045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si23045","url":null,"abstract":"Beet washing is often considered to be of secondary priority compared with other stations of the beet sugar process. But it is as important as the others are and one can consider it as the first stage of purification. Many positive or negative effects in the downstream stations originate here. The French system uses drum washers for pre/main and final washing. They treat the beet gently and efficiently, resulting in low remaining tare content and low sugar losses as well, even with heavy and sticky soils. The wash water is mainly flowing counter-current to the beet flow with the effect, that water demand is low and dry matter in the outlet water is higher than most other systems. This technology, engineered in the right way, can generate many positive effects on the entire front-end operation of the factory.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82553513","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":"Exploitation of somaclonal variations for improvement of sugar recovery in sugarcane","authors":"M. T. Khan, N. Seema, I. Khan, S. Yasmine","doi":"10.36961/si20567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36961/si20567","url":null,"abstract":"Somaclonal variations present an excellent approach to introduce genetic diversity in sugarcane. Somaclones of NIA-2010, a high yielding variety with moderate sugar recovery, were developed through callus culture. After initial selection, fifteen somaclones were transplanted in field along with the parent, for two consecutive years. Some of the somaclones illustrated improved quantitative traits viz. height, girth, internodes length, and tillers per plant; whereas, cane quality related characters including CCS, sugar recovery and purity were enhanced in most of the tissue culture derived plants. However, none of the somaclones could surpass the parent in terms of sugar yield per ha. Pearson’s correlation analysis indicated a strong positive correlation of the cane quality related traits among each other. Analysis of genetic parameters depicted considerably greater genotypic variance than the environmental variance, and high heritability for all the characters studied. Two somaclones i.e. 1026-P24 and 1026-P12 showed exceptionally high cane quality traits as compared to other somaclones and the parent. Hence, they can serve as potential candidates for cultivation and adoptability in Pakistan.","PeriodicalId":54362,"journal":{"name":"Sugar Industry-Zuckerindustrie","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81454827","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}