At ten o'clock in the morning of April 22, all the traversers gathered in the courtyard of the sugar factory and watched with great interest Mr. Zhao, Mr. Wang Xueluo, and several industrial bigwigs busy in front of the machine.

Compared with the elated crowd of onlookers, these bigwigs were discussing something with a serious face at this time, and then, soon, under the command of several bigwigs, the members of the chemical group and the mechanical group were also in place, and they were ready to cooperate in the operation of these sugar making equipment that had just been commissioned.

Obviously, the sugar factory is much less labor-intensive than the brick and tile factory cement factory, after Mr. Zhao's start, the first thing is to put tons of sugarcane in an iron cage after simply cleaning the leaves, and the Huang Hai operation of the mechanical group of electric hoists hoists to lift the iron cage and place it in the flushing tank, the water pump here starts immediately, and the high-pressure water sprayed out of the pipeline quickly washes the sugarcane stalks clean.

Then the electric hoist hoist hoisted the cleaned sugarcane onto a rail flatbed, and Boss Luo and Chengdong pushed the flatbed into the pressing workshop.

At the end of the track, there is a motor-driven crusher, and Boss Luo stuffed the sugarcane stalks into the crusher entrance in turn.

Connected to it is a press, the iron rollers are running at high speed driven by the motor pulleys, the sugarcane stalks quickly disappear between the iron rollers, and the pressed sugarcane juice is introduced into a large jar by the pipe to settle.

There's also a pump, and the juice is quickly pumped into a three-metre-high coal-fired evaporation tank for heating, while the bagasse is squeezed out along a semi-enclosed trough and ends up in a waste bin.

When the waste box was full, Gui Xianning and Qiao Xiaomu used shovels to scoop out the dregs and put them into the entrance of the press again, repeating the squeezing twice.

In this way, about 20 tons of sugarcane were repeatedly pressed by the press three times in less than half a day, and the remaining bagasse will be transported to Sydney Island at the request of Lao Zhu, who said that he will cooperate with Lao Wang and Sun Lao to try to make rum from these bagasse, which is really not good to use as feed, after all, livestock also like to eat.

The virgin sugar cane juice has a cloudy dark gray color mixed with dark green, and this cloudy liquid is quickly heated in an evaporation tank, which is fueled by coal, which is actually a small boiler.

Then, the heated liquid was injected into a large iron box, where, after careful weighing, Mr. Zhao Wang Xue and others added lime milk as a clarifying agent to the box, and then simply stirred, and then waited for the liquid to precipitate.

The liquid is then heated and evaporated again, and finally condensed in the pipes, which is called raw syrup.

These raw syrups are injected into the evaporation tank again for multiple evaporation and condensation, and after repeated many times, a relatively clear and thick liquid - sugar paste is obtained.

Sugar paste still needs to be further refined to turn into white sugar.

In the previous process planning, the members of the chemical industry group and the machinery group worked together to discuss comprehensively, and finally decided to adopt the more advanced lime ---- carbon dioxide refining process, that is, the carbonic acid method.

Relatively speaking, the quality of the sugar produced by this method is more guaranteed than the ancient sulfuric acid method, and in a consultation session before the crossing, Anna told some of them that if the two methods were used together, the quality of the white sugar would be higher, and the sugar yield would be increased.

However, it seems that there is no such condition now, and the sulfur boiling furnace in the cave has not yet had time to be installed, so it has to wait for later.

And this simple carbonic acid process is also related to Engineer Anna, who is obviously a real professional, and he is very prescient to provide you with a limestone calciner---- which is a very advanced concept of micro-limestone calciner, which can later be built by itself with refractory bricks.

Therefore, Mr. Zhao commented that this equipment and process are very "adaptable to the times".

When limestone is calcined into quicklime, a large amount of carbon dioxide gas is produced, the former is the raw material for lime milk, and the latter is the key element in refining sugar paste into white sugar.

With these process materials, the white sugar produced by the traversers will not only greatly surpass this era in terms of quality, but also turn white sugar into a bulk commodity in terms of cost.

The power of science and technology beyond the times is a cow.

At this time, the gas of the calciner is blown into the sugar paste pool, under the action of carbon dioxide, the sugar paste liquid begins to gradually become clear, the whole process is repeated many times with the help of electric machinery, after repeated cooking and blowing into carbon dioxide, the concentration of sugar paste is getting higher and higher, and the water is getting less and less.

Finally, the saturated and filtered sugar paste finally turns into a clear concentrated syrup and begins to precipitate a small amount of crystals, which is the white sugar mother liquor.

Next, the sugar mother liquor is sucked into the pipeline by the pump to cool down, condense and crystallize, and then enter an electric centrifuge to completely separate the mother liquor from the crystals, and the residual mother liquor returns to the evaporation tank through the pipeline, repeating the cooling and condensation process.

The crystals are blown into the drying oven, the dry hot air evaporates the residual water, and the viscous syrup finally turns into white sugar crystals---- and the dry hot air comes from the heat of the limestone calciner, so this recycling system is very efficient and environmentally friendly, obviously, this is the masterpiece of the engineer Anna from the future.

Regarding the comprehensive utilization system of the calciner, it was Wang Xue and Boss Luo's mechanical team that thoroughly dismantled and analyzed these equipment to understand the operation principle of the equipment provided by Anna.

Because it was the first time to produce sugar, all the travelers were at the scene, including the ladies who were nursing their babies, and everyone gathered outside the factory to watch the entire production process up close.

When the white sugar crystals of Bai Huahua erupted from the nozzle of the drying oven, everyone finally couldn't hold back their joy and cheered.

The ejected crystals are immediately loaded into a metal can, a small mill starts, and the white sugar crystals of different sizes are ground into fine sand---- which is the final product, the world's first quality cotton sugar!

In order to accurately grasp the process data, Mr. Zhao's chemical team used valuable PH test strips, thermometers, sugar detectors, etc.

In the whole production process, the science and engineering bigwigs involved in the operation and testing have been very nervous, because the sugar yield and clarity of sucrose are closely related to the mastery of pH and hydrothermal temperature.

For the trial production of sugarcane sugar, not only all the directly related science and engineering personnel participated, but even the indirectly related Hou Xianglin was also supervised throughout the whole process, and the boss Wang Xueluo also personally tested the whole process.

Even the time of each CO2 blow is carefully measured, and the goal is to get as much empirical value as possible for the entire production process.

Therefore, the whole trial production was stop-and-go, and it was not until noon that the 20 tons of sugarcane were squeezed in 10 batches.

Through batch trial production, the bigwigs finally preliminarily grasped the first-hand process data, which is marked by the fact that the sugar yield rate of each batch is increasing step by step.

Finally, to the amazement of the onlookers, the sugar was packed into large clay pots – the only packaging material that could be used so far.

In this regard, many people are worried that this clay pot has also sunk a little, occupying the payload of the ship, and it doesn't matter if the amount of sugar is small now, what should I do if the amount is large in the future?

After seeing it, Lao Wang said at the scene that if the labor force is in place, he will further expand the planting area of sisal and cotton, so that there will be raw materials for woven bags of sugar.

In short, the production of white sugar has finally succeeded with the concerted efforts of everyone, and in any case, it is a thing worth celebrating.

At the celebration dinner that night, Mr. Zhao concluded that the success of this trial production should be attributed to everyone's cooperation and careful planning in advance, according to statistics, 23 tons of sugarcane produced a total of 2.9 tons of sugar, considering that it is the first production, such a sugar yield is very good.

Mr. Zhao went on to say that the raw material in the next few days was sugar beet, and the production process was similar.

Now that we have first-hand data, 70 tons of beetroot are expected to produce between 8 and 12 percent of sugar, perhaps a little higher, so we should be able to produce at least six to seven tons of sugar, and with the output of sugar cane, we should be able to produce ten tons of sugar.

Although ten tonnes of sugar is a fraction of the Pride's payload of more than 400 tonnes, it is a good start, and by the end of the year, when a new crop of sugar cane and sugar beets is harvested, sugar will be a major commodity for us.