Includes bibliographical references (p. 803-806) and index.
Basics of beet-sugar technology. Sugar ; Beet-sugar factory ; Sugar terminology ; Sucrose properties ; Carbohydrates -- Sugarbeet farming -- Sugarbeet processing. Beet receiving and storage ; Beet drycleaning ; Beet conveying and fluming ; Stone and trash separation ; Beet washing and flume-water treatment ; Beet slicing ; Juice diffusion ; Pulp treatment ; Milk-of-lime and carbonation-gas production ; Juice purification ; Sedimentation and filtration ; Steam and power production ; Juice evaporation ; Juice decolorization and sulfitation ; Juice storage ; Syrup crystallization ; Molasses exhaustion ; Massecuite centrifuging ; Sugar drying, storing, and packaging ; Production of specialty sugars -- Quality control -- Ion-exchange resin -- Juice-softening process -- Molasses-softening process / C.D. Rhoten -- Molasses-desugaring process -- Refining raw cane sugar in a beet-sugar factory -- Environmental concerns of a beet-sugar factory / J.L. Carlson -- Sugar laboratory and methods of analysis. Laboratory organization ; Laboratory analytical instruments ; Laboratory reagents ; Beet-end methods of analysis ; Sugar-end methods of analysis ; Quality-control methods of analysis ; Special methods of analysis ; Molasses-desugaring methods of analysis ; Environmental methods of analysis ; Laboratory safety and first aid -- Basics of science related to sugar technology. Basics of chemistry ; Basics of mathematics and statistics.