Centrifuge for continuously monitoring and measuring the color of a massecuite over the entire height of the centrifuge basket

A centrifuge for separating, in a massecuite, a quantity of sugar crystals from a syrup, the centrifuge comprising at least:

• a centrifuge basket actuated in rotation about a central axis of rotation, into which the massecuite is intended to be introduced, the centrifuge basket having a bottom wall and a peripheral wall, the peripheral wall being permeable and having a lower edge contiguous to the bottom wall and an upper edge, and wherein the peripheral wall has a height measured from the lower edge to the upper edge;
• a measuring apparatus comprising at least one light source for illuminating the interior of the centrifuge basket and a photodetection system for detecting reflected light and delivering photodetection measurements that are representative of the massecuite or the peripheral wall;
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• a processing unit connected to the measuring apparatus for receiving and processing the photodetection measurements;
• the centrifuge wherein the light source is designed to illuminate the peripheral wall of the centrifuge basket over at least 90% of its height, and the photodetection system is designed to detect over at least 90% of the height of the peripheral wall the light reflected by the massecuite or the peripheral wall;
• and in that the processing unit is designed to continuously process in real time the photodetection measurements performed over at least 90% of the height of the peripheral wall.