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US 11,453,921 B2Granted
System for and method of processing sugar cane
AssigneeBiomass Technologies Pty Ltd
InventorsRodney A. Brown, Maxwell A. Scott, Mark Diamond
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Abstract
A method of processing raw sugar cane juice, comprising: reducing the pH of the sugar cane juice to a pH at which microbiological activity is substantially eliminated; separating chlorophyll from the sugar cane juice; separating particles having a diameter greater than 0.5 microns from the sugar cane juice; denaturing polyphenol oxidase (PPO) in the sugar cane juice by pasteurisation; separating the denatured polyphenol oxidase from the sugar cane juice.
Claims8
A method of processing raw sugar cane juice, comprising:
- performing a first clarification comprising:
- reducing the pH of the sugar cane juice to a pH of 4 or less;
- separating chlorophyll from the sugar cane juice;
- and
- separating particles having a diameter greater than 0.5 microns from the sugar cane juice;
- and
- performing a second clarification comprising:
- denaturing polyphenol oxidase (PPO) in the sugar cane juice by pasteurisation;
- and
- separating the denatured polyphenol oxidase from the sugar cane juice.
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