Improving Cane Juice Clarity with Advanced Enzymatic Clarification
Producing high quality sugar begins with clean cane juice. However, freshly extracted cane juice naturally contains pectins, fibres, proteins, starch, and other suspended particles that increase viscosity and turbidity. If these impurities are not removed efficiently, they can reduce sugar recovery, slow processing, and increase operational costs. As sugar mills strive to improve efficiency while reducing chemical usage, enzymatic clarifiers have emerged as an effective and sustainable solution. Impurity build up affects several stages of sugar production. Suspended solids and colloidal materials can clog filters, promote scale formation in evaporators, and reduce the efficiency of clarification systems. They may also trap sucrose, preventing complete sugar extraction. Traditional clarification methods often rely on chemical treatments and intensive heating, but these approaches can increase energy consumption, generate more effluent, and fail to remove all naturally occurring impuriti...