Knowledge Modeling and Advanced Control of Evaporators in Cane Sugar Industry

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (10) ◽  
pp. 347-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Cadet ◽  
Y. Touré ◽  
G. Gilles ◽  
J.C. Gatina
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Knowledge Modeling ◽  
Advanced Control

The Cultivation System (1830–1870) and its private entrepreneurs on colonial Java

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulbe Bosma
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultivation System ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
Plantation Economy ◽  
Private Entrepreneurs ◽  
Colonial Government

AbstractEver since the interregnum from 1811 to 1816 of Lieutenant Governor General Stamford Raffles, British trading interests had been firmly established in colonial Indonesia. The implementation of the Cultivation System in 1830 on Java by the Dutch colonial government was an attempt to bring this potentially rich colony under Dutch economic control, but it is usually considered a departure from the principles of economic liberalism and a phase during which private entrepreneurs were barred from the emerging plantation economy. However, on the basis of census data and immigration records, and with reference to recent literature on the development of the nineteenth-century sugar industry, this article argues that British trading houses present on Java in the early nineteenth century continued to play an important role in the development of the production there of tropical goods, and that the emerging plantation economy attracted a modest influx of technicians and employees from various European nations. This article proposes to consider the Cultivation System and private enterprise not as mutually exclusive, but as complementary in making the cane sugar industry of Java the second largest in the world after that of Cuba.

Biomass-Fired Steam-Injected Gas-Turbine Cogeneration for the Cane Sugar Industry

1988 ◽  
pp. 77-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric D. Larson ◽  
Joan M. Ogden ◽  
Robert H. Williams ◽  
Michael G. Hylton
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Cane Sugar

scholarly journals Changing sugar technology and the labour nexus in the British Caribbean, 1750-1900, with special reference to Barbados and Jamaica

1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
British Caribbean ◽  
The Impact

Author examines the pattern and direction of technological change in the cane sugar industry of Barbados and Jamaica, and analyses the impact of this change on the employment, productivity, and welfare of workers engaged in the production of sugar.

Biomass-Gasifier Steam-Injected Gas Turbine Cogeneration

1990 ◽  
Vol 112 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. D. Larson ◽  
R. H. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Steam Injection ◽  
Electric Utility ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Commercial Viability ◽  
Potential Applications

Steam injection for power and efficiency augmentation in aeroderivative gas turbines is now commercially established for natural gas-fired cogeneration. Steam-injected gas turbines fired with coal and biomass are being developed. In terms of efficiency, capital cost, and commercial viability, the most promising way to fuel steam-injected gas turbines with biomass is via the biomass-integrated gasifier/steam-injected gas turbine (BIG/STIG). The R&D effort required to commercialize the BIG/STIG is modest because it can build on extensive previous coal-integrated gasifier/gas turbine development efforts. An economic analysis of BIG/STIG cogeneration is presented here for cane sugar factories, where sugar cane residues would be the fuel. A BIG/STIG investment would be attractive for sugar producers, who could sell large quantities of electricity, or for the local electric utility, as a low-cost generating option. Worldwide, the cane sugar industry could support some 50,000 MW of BIG/STIG capacity, and there are many potential applications in the forest products and other biomass-based industries.

The Archaeology of Cane Sugar Production: A Survey of Twenty years of Research in Cyprus

2001 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 305-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Louise von Wartburg
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Sugar Production ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Industrial Archaeology ◽  
Written Information ◽  
New Information ◽  
First Time

The first research project in medieval industrial archaeology in Cyprus originated with the investigation of the Lusignan cane sugar production centre at Kouklia (Stavros Project); it became an incentive for the exploration of the establishments of the Hospitallers at Kolossi and the Cornaro family at Episkopi. Excavations at Kouklia-Stavros (1980–82 and 1987–91) recovered a sophisticated structure of milling and refining installations, and revealed new economic and technological aspects of this important, but thus far hardly explored industry of the island in Lusignan and Venetian times. The wealth of new information gained made it possible to understand for the first time thoroughly how Levantine cane sugar refineries actually worked. The contextual approach of the Stavros Project, interrelating archaeological evidence and written information, suggests further interesting research topics such as the repercussions of the sugar industry on social structure, settlement patterns, and environment, or the transfer of the methods and technology of sugar production from Islamic lands to the western Mediterranean, and finally to the Americas.

Exogenous Colonialism: Java Sugar between Nippon and Taikoo before and during the Interwar Depression, c. 1920–1940

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. ROGER KNIGHT
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
China Market ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Asian Mainland

AbstractThis paper discusses the commercial history of the Java sugar industry in the interwar decades of the 1920s and 1930s. Java's late colonial industry had a uniquely exogenous character, in that, amongst the world's major producers of cane sugar in the late colonial era, it was singularly devoid of metropolitan or quasi-metropolitan markets. Instead, it sought its markets pre-eminently on the Asian ‘mainland’ to its north and northwest. The Indian subcontinent formed one such market, but East Asia formed the second, and it is the Java industry's fortunes in China and Japan that provide the focus of the present paper. This focus highlights the extent to which the partial collapse of the industry in the mid-1930s related to factors altogether more complex than a simple fall in consumption and drop in prices associated with the interwar Depression. Fundamentally, it was evolving economic autarchy throughout east Asia, encouraged by Depression conditions, which lay at the heart of the Java sugar industry's problems in this sector of its market. Key factors were Java's ambivalent relationship with an expanding but crisis-ridden Japanese sugar ‘empire,’ and the effect on its long-standing links with British sugar refineries in Hong Kong because of the latter's increasing difficulties in the China market. In tandem, they underscored the commercial hazards inherent in Java sugar's exogenous situation.

scholarly journals The World's Cane Sugar Industry: Past and Present

1913 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
R. M. Brown ◽  
H. C. Prinsen Geerligs
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Cane Sugar

scholarly journals Global Factory and Local Field: Convergence and Divergence in the International Cane-Sugar Industry, 1850–1940

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulbe Bosma ◽  
Roger Knight
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Technological Convergence ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Key Aspects

Technological convergence in the international sugar economy began in the 1830s and was substantially complete by the outbreak of World War I in 1914. By the end of the nineteenth century, the industrialized sugar factory was a global phenomenon like the steamship and the railway engine (to which key aspects of its innards were closely related). We will argue that the single most important fact about nineteenth-century sugar industries was the degree of technological convergence that came to characterize their manufacturing sectors, regardless of the type of labour involved. A revisiting of the literature of the past twenty-five years, both in the New and Old Worlds, suggests that historians have yet fully to come to terms with the global character of this convergence and with the question of why convergence in the factory had no parallel in the field, where there continued to be a striking global divergence between the means and modes by which the industry was supplied with raw material. This problem in the recent historiography of the subject also highlights issues relating to the “proletarianization” of labour and the assumption that industrial capitalist modernity was inextricably associated with the development of “free labour”. More specifically, it draws attention to major flaws in the terms of reference of the now classic debate about the nexus between technological change and the predominant forms of labour in the Caribbean production area. In so doing, it underlines the need for a global rather than simply regional approach to the dynamics of change in the international sugar industry of the late colonial era. The latter part of our article outlines the broad historical parameters of this divergence in the sugar-cane field, and suggests the need for exploring the political economies surrounding the sugar producing areas and their mechanisms of ethnic segmentation of the labour force in particular.

Selection among genotypes in final stage sugarcane trials: effects of time of year

2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (12) ◽  
pp. 1165 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Rattey ◽  
P. A. Jackson ◽  
D. M. Hogarth ◽  
T. A. McRae
Keyword(s):  
Central Region ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Genetic Correlations ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Cane Yield ◽  
Genotypic Variance

Low levels of commercial cane sugar (CCS) reduce relative economic value (REV) in sugarcane. In the Australian sugarcane industry, CCS is lower early (June) compared with the completion (November) of the harvest period. Performance of sugarcane genotypes in 2 Central region series and 1 Burdekin region series of final stage selection trials was examined to determine if independent selection programs are required to select elite genotypes for 2 target periods: (a) early (before July), and (b) mature (from July on). Across series, CCS (16.83 v. 12.02% fresh cane weight) and REV (AU$3937/ha v. $3123/ha) were significantly higher in the mature than in the early period, while genotypic variance for CCS (0.76 v. 0.33), and broad-sense heritability for CCS (0.96 v. 0.86) and REV (0.79 v. 0.69), were higher in the early than in the mature period. Genetic correlations between sample times less than 3 months apart were usually ≥0.9 for CCS, but generally declined to ≤0.6 for times greater than 3 months apart. Consequently, genotype × period (early compared with mature) interaction effects on CCS affected selection decisions, especially in the Central region, and genetic improvements for CCS would be expected via specific targeting of early and mature periods. However, genotype × period interaction effects were not important for cane yield or REV, such that selection for specific adaptation to early or mature periods would not improve gains in REV across the entire harvest period. Some final stage selection trials should be harvested early in the harvest period, when heritability and genotypic variance are highest, to capture high early CCS genotypes with acceptable cane yield for recycling in breeding activities. This protocol should enhance genetic gain for early CCS and simultaneously increase REV early in the harvesting period of the Australian sugar industry.

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