Papers that have been published, or presented at technical meetings are listed below.  Clicking on the title of a paper will download the paper to your computer.  Papers are Adobe Acrobat PDF files and Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view and print them.  A copy of Adobe Acrobat is available for free from Adobe’s web site (click on the Adobe Acrobat Reader link in the previous sentence to download the reader if it is not already on your computer).

Modeling the New Technology Raw Sugar Factory/Refinery Using Sugars™ for Windows® - Published in Volume CIII, Issue No. 1231, July 2001 of the International Sugar Journal.  This paper covers modeling of the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida raw sugar factory with ultra filtration, juice softening, chromatographic separation and crystallization added to the factory to produce 500 tons per day of refined sugar using approximately 20% of the clarified juice. The added revenues for the factory from the new technology are shown and other alternatives are discussed. File size: 334KB.

Industrial performance of the mechanical vapor recompression and multiple effect evaporator system: successful operation and significant reduction in steam usage - Presented to the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists (ASSBT) meeting, February 2001 by James Pope and Jeffrey Hude.  This design paper shows the design and modeling of a raffinate evaporator system for a molasses desugarization plant.  The modeling was done using Sugars.  File size: 394KB.

Computer Simulation For Higher Profits - Article published in issue 1-2000 of the International Sugar Review. This article discusses ways that simulation can improve the profitability of sugar companies. File size: 8KB.

Al Khaleej Sugar A Water Efficient Refinery - Presented to the Sugar Industry Technologists (SIT) meeting, May 2000, paper no. 782, by Jamal Al Ghurair & G.C. Singh. This paper references the use of Sugars for the study and simulation of the Al Khaleej Sugar Refinery during its initial design and gives the results of the study to compare phosphatation and carbonatation for water consumption.  File size: 766KB.

Cane Factory Process Modeling using Sugars™ for Windows® - Presented to the twenty-ninth annual joint meeting of the Florida and Louisiana divisions of the American Society of Sugar Cane Technologists, June 16 - 18, 1999, in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. The paper shows the new Sugars for Windows interface with a model of a cane sugar factory. This paper was published in Volume CII, Issue No. 1214, February 2000 of the International Sugar Journal. File size: 537KB.

Al Khaleej Sugar An Energy Efficient Refinery - Presented to the Sugar Industry Technologists (SIT) meeting, May 1999, paper no. 751, by Jamal Al Ghurair & G.C. Singh. This paper references the use of Sugars for the study and simulation of the Al Khaleej Sugar Refinery during its initial design and discusses the simulation of sixteen different process models that were built to analyze different configurations of the refinery. Files size: 549KB.

Sugars™ for Windows® - A Revolutionary Update - Presented to the 21st General Assembly of the Commission Internationale Technique de Sucrerie (CITS), May 24 - 28, 1999, in Antwerp, Belgium. The paper shows many of the features of the Sugars for Windows program. A summary in English, German and French is given at the end of the paper. A modified version of this paper was published in the 124 (49) October 1999 issue of ZuckerIndustrie. File size: 541KB.

Sugars™ Program Update for Windows® - Beet Sugar  - Presented to the 30th General Meeting of the American society of Sugar Beet Technologists (ASSBT), February  1999, in Orlando, Florida USA.  This was the first paper to show the new Sugars for Windows program, and it gives an overview of all of the new features.  File size 541KB.

The Engineers' Tool Box.  A review of modeling and analysis tools and their application.  Paper published in volume 99, no. 1185B, 1997 of the International Sugar Journal by Phil Thompson, process engineering consultant.  As mentioned in the paper, only more costly packages have sufficient flexibility to model sugar processes.  "One exception to this is Sugars™, which is a specialist PC simulation package specifically developed for the sugar industry."  File size: 53KB.

Simulation of the Malelane and Komati Mills with Sugars™ Simulation Software - Presented to the 71^st Annual Congress of the South African Sugar Technologists’ Association, June 2-4, 1997 by N. Stolz and W. Weiss. This paper discusses the results from modeling cane diffusion factories owned by Transvaal Suiker Beperk, South Africa. File size: 1,683KB.

Refinery Simulation Using Sugars™ - Presented to the 53^rd Annual Meeting of the Sugar Industry Technologists (SIT), Inc., May 1994, paper no. 655. This paper shows the DOS version of Sugars used to simulate a refinery using both a normal Pol (98.7) and low Pol (97.9) raw sugar. File size: 1,831KB.

Investment Decisions Using the Sugars™ Computer Program

- Presented to the 26^th General Meeting of the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists, February 1991. This paper shows the DOS version of Sugars used to simulate the sugar end of a beet sugar factory to show the financial benefits of adding an intermediate crystallizer, vacuum crystallizer and molasses desugarization. File size: 2,378KB. - Presented to the 26^th General Meeting of the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists, February 1991. This paper shows the DOS version of Sugars used to simulate the sugar end of a beet sugar factory to show the financial benefits of adding an intermediate crystallizer, vacuum crystallizer and molasses desugarization. File size: 2,378KB.

Sugar Factory Process Optimization Using the Sugars™ Computer Program - Presented to the 25^th General Meeting of the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists, February 1989. This paper shows a base case model of a beet sugar factory that is then modified with some process changes to improve the operation of the factory and increase its revenues. File size: 2,603KB.