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Beet Sugar Waste Lagooning HARVEY G. ROGERS and L. H. SMITH Director Division of Water Pollution and Public Health Engineer Minnesota Department of Health Minneapolis, Minnesota A study of the use of lagoons for the disposal of beet sugar wastes was conducted at the plant of the American Crystal Sugar Co., Moor- head, Minnesota, during the campaign years of 1949-50-51. The information in this paper has been taken from the progress reports prepared on this investigation. The plant is located adjacent to the northern boundary of the City of Moorhead in Clay County, Minnesota. Wastes are discharged from the plant to the lagoons and, after impoundment over the winter, from the lagoons at controlled rates to county ditch and thence to the Red River of the North. The study was sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Health in collaboration with the U. S. Public Health Service and member states of the Missouri River Basin Sanitation Agreement. Costs of the study were defrayed by a grant from the U. S. Public Health Service from funds allotted under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Personnel was provided largely by the staff of the Division of Water Pollution Control of the Minnesota Department of Health. Personnel of the American Crystal Sugar Company at Moorhead assisted in collection of samples during the 1950 campaign at the plant. Consultants on special problems were from the staff of the University of Minnesota. Plant Processes The plant was placed in operation in 1948 and was designed to extract the sugar from 2,880 tons of sugar beets per day. It embodies the most recent developments in sugar extraction equipment and design. Briefly the processing of sugar beets to recover sugar at the plant is carried out as follows: Beets from storage are flumed through a stone trap and then to the beet wheel washer. They are then conveyed to the slicer where the beets are cut into long slender slices known as "cossettes". The "cossettes" are conveyed over a weightometer and thence to a continuous 21-cell counter-current diffuser where the sugar is extracted 136
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Purdue Identification Number | ETRIWC195316 |
Title | Beet sugar waste lagooning |
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Rogers, Harvey G. Smith, L. H. |
Date of Original | 1953 |
Conference Title | Proceedings of the eighth Industrial Waste Conference |
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Extent of Original | p. 136-147 |
Collection Title | Engineering Technical Reports Collection, Purdue University |
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Transcript | Beet Sugar Waste Lagooning HARVEY G. ROGERS and L. H. SMITH Director Division of Water Pollution and Public Health Engineer Minnesota Department of Health Minneapolis, Minnesota A study of the use of lagoons for the disposal of beet sugar wastes was conducted at the plant of the American Crystal Sugar Co., Moor- head, Minnesota, during the campaign years of 1949-50-51. The information in this paper has been taken from the progress reports prepared on this investigation. The plant is located adjacent to the northern boundary of the City of Moorhead in Clay County, Minnesota. Wastes are discharged from the plant to the lagoons and, after impoundment over the winter, from the lagoons at controlled rates to county ditch and thence to the Red River of the North. The study was sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Health in collaboration with the U. S. Public Health Service and member states of the Missouri River Basin Sanitation Agreement. Costs of the study were defrayed by a grant from the U. S. Public Health Service from funds allotted under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Personnel was provided largely by the staff of the Division of Water Pollution Control of the Minnesota Department of Health. Personnel of the American Crystal Sugar Company at Moorhead assisted in collection of samples during the 1950 campaign at the plant. Consultants on special problems were from the staff of the University of Minnesota. Plant Processes The plant was placed in operation in 1948 and was designed to extract the sugar from 2,880 tons of sugar beets per day. It embodies the most recent developments in sugar extraction equipment and design. Briefly the processing of sugar beets to recover sugar at the plant is carried out as follows: Beets from storage are flumed through a stone trap and then to the beet wheel washer. They are then conveyed to the slicer where the beets are cut into long slender slices known as "cossettes". The "cossettes" are conveyed over a weightometer and thence to a continuous 21-cell counter-current diffuser where the sugar is extracted 136 |
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