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Reliable quality control of sugar with digital image processing
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Quality control is an essential part of the sugar production process
as manufacturers must ensure that the product complies with the
customers’ specifications. Not only the look, texture and taste of the
final product depends on the size distribution, but also the solubility,
tendency to aggregate, agglomerate and other properties which
are important for industrial processes using sugar as a raw material.
Hence, care must be taken that particles are neither too small nor
too big. Traditionally, the particle size determination is carried out
by sieve analysis which is a rather slow, labour-intensive method
and commonly subject to measurement errors such as: too much
sample material, worn out (uncalibrated) sieves, wrong sieve parameters
(amplitude and sieving time) or simple calculation errors.
An excellent alternative for the quality control of sugar is Retsch
Technology’s CAMSIZER®. CAMSIZER® measurements are fast,
automated, accurate and 100% comparable with sieve analysis.
With these advantages the instrument can reliably replace sieving.
