• Once a self-sufficient community
  • Taiwan's economic export value accounts for the largest proportion
  • Departing from an abandoned railway
  • With the introduction of local people
  • Let's understand the history of Taiwan Sugar

Harvest

Previous sugarcane harvesting and transport requires a lot of manpower. With the railway raw material , shipping sugar cane to the factory becomes quicker and easier. Because of mechanical harvesters, manpower is needed from 10 people greatly reduced to 2~3 people, not only the manpower was sharply reduced, harvest time is also significantly shortened, and the harvest area is also much greater than it used be.。

Weigh and feed cane

After the sugarcane is sent to the "weighing station" by the vehicle, it is weighed first, and then some sugarcane is taken out of the vehicle as the amount of sugarcane, and check whether there is any debris, and as the basis for reward and punishment. After the sugarcane is unloaded, the sugarcane is fed into the mouth by the sugarcane grasping machine, and then the sugar is made.。

Cut

During the process of conveyinging the cane, rows of cane knives cut the cane into lengths of one meter After two cuts, the cane is sent to the slicing machine to cut the cane into finer pieces, so the cane knives in the slicing machine are denser than those in the cutting machine. The Sugarcanes were cut more finely to preserve only the fiber and juice. 。

press

The purpose of squeezing is to completely squeeze the sugarcanes, The squeezing is undergoing with adding hot water . The process is repeated for 5 times, and then the sugarcane pulp was sent to the thermal generator.。

Steam and electricity symbiosis

The majority of the electricity that sugar mills use to make sugar comes from the steam in the boiler that drives the gears inside the generator to produce electricity. This way the bagasse would not be wasted.。

Clean evaporation

To Purify is to squeeze out of sugarcane juice add lime milk, make the impurities and lime milk reaction, make its precipitation, then precipitate filter out impurities, pure sugarcane step is very important, because as long as this step is not handled properly, the output to the sugar will eventually have a lot of impurities, the evaporation of the main purpose is to make a substantial reduction in the moisture in sugarcane juice, evaporated cane juice before will be enriched to a quarter of the size, now known as syrup.。

crystallization

After evaporation, and then the concentration of syrup, into the cylinder heating, the crystallization of jar in the process of heating and decompression, syrup was forced to rapid enrichment, until saturated, crystallization appeared, but in addition to the crystal, there is a material with crystallization is mixed with the molasses, molasses crystallization at the same time is called the massecuite at this time.。

Split honey

Molasses is a rapidly rotating centrifugal force that separates the saccharine into crystals and molasses. The crystals stay in the nectar separator, and the molasses is completely separated from the crystals by centrifugal force. Molasses is the raw material for making alcohol.。

Finished product

Because crystallization from the honey separator out of the need to clean water to enter the dryer, can be sent to the automatic screening machine, too big or too small particles screening, and then bag, seal, you can sell, also can be reprocessed into rock sugar, black sugar, brown sugar and other processing sugar products.。