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Beet Sugar Filtration

As beet sugar producers place increasingly higher demands on product quality, operating cost, evaporator run length and environmental compliance, the industry has a growing need for a filter-aid-free, fully automatic, high-precision filtration upgrade solution that can be deployed at multiple process points — this is precisely the positioning of the BetaFlo^® Automatic Backwash Filter.www.livicfilter.com/en/filtersystem_show_1352.shtml

Standard Liquor / Syrup Fine Filtration (Before Boiling and Crystallization)
Process location: Fine filtration of standard liquor or syrup, positioned after evaporation and concentration and before boiling and crystallization.
Recommended configuration: 10–20 µm for a fine-filtration duty, or up to 150 µm for a pretreatment/protective duty, to be determined according to the suspended-solids tolerance of the downstream boiling process.
Application value: BetaFlo can replace or be installed ahead of traditional diatomaceous earth precoat filtration, removing the cost of continuous filter-aid dosing; it can reduce suspended impurities and colloids entering the crystallization stage, helping to stabilize crystal formation and improve product colour value; it may lower the risk of scaling or fouling on crystallizers and extend equipment cleaning cycles; and its fully automatic continuous operation is suited to the continuous production rhythm of a beet sugar processing campaign.

Fine Filtration of Clarified Juice (Before Evaporation, Protecting the Evaporators)
Recommended configuration: 10-20 µm, focused on removing the fine calcium carbonate particles and colloids that the clarification stage was unable to fully settle and separate.
Application value: This can substantially reduce the fine calcium carbonate particle content entering the evaporators, slowing the rate of scale formation on the heating surfaces, extending cleaning cycles and helping to maintain evaporation efficiency; it complements the existing carbonation-based clarification process without requiring any change to the clarification route, allowing it to be implemented quickly as an “additional fine-filtration point"; and it creates a lower-load feed condition for the downstream standard liquor fine filtration, so that the two stages together form a dual-protection system of "clarified juice fine filtration plus standard liquor fine filtration.”