2nd ESST Conference 2nd ESST Conference

Joint meeting with Joint meeting with Verein Deutscher Zuckertechniker and Verein Deutscher Zuckertechniker and Fachverein der Zuckerfabriken Österreichs Fachverein der Zuckerfabriken Österreichs Bratislava, 30 May to 1 June 2011 Bratislava, 30 May to 1 June 2011

Provisional Programme

Raw refining Liquefied (LSB) as alternative fermentation substrate Comparison of two different techniques for sugar Irina Sterr; Ulrich Kettling – Süd-Chemie liquor decolourisation in a raw sugar refinery Stefan Pfau; Günther Ahring – IPRO Industrieprojekt Options of sugar beet pretreatment for hydrogen fermentation Economic purification of raw melt in sugar beet facto- Robert Grabarczyk1, Emmanuel Koukios2, Krzysztof ries Urbaniec1, Giuseppe Vaccari3 , Dr. Robert Bakker4 – Carsten Irmer – Putsch 1 CERED Centre of Excellence, Warsaw University of Technology, Plock, ; 2 Bioresource Technology Unit, National Technical Uni- Quality of raw sugar and refining possibilities in the versity of , ; beet sugar factories 3 Departament of Chemistry, University of Ferrara, Italy Vadim Kochergin – Audubon Sugar Institute, USA 4 Food and Biobased Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Factors affecting colour removal in a refinery Fernando Martín, Marta Gª de Quevedo, Laura Diego, Beet quality related to long processing Jaime Sagristá – Azucarera Ebro campaigns

Cane raw sugar – quality criteria and classification of Experience of Czech sugar factories with prolonged raw campaigns in winter Martin Bruhns – Pfeifer & Langen Evžen Šárka, Zdenik Bubník, Pavel Kadlec – Depart- ment of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Technology, ICT Prague, Czech Republic New developments

Processing of long-stored sugar beet Thickened raw juice – some aspects of thickening and Walter Hein, H. Bauer, Florian Emerstorfer – Agrana use Piotr Wawro; Radosław Gruska; Maciej Stanisz – Insti- tute of Food Technology, Technical University of Lodz Evaluation of an alternative method for the prediction of the technological beet quality Biogas production at Suiker Unie Florian Emerstorfer, Walter Hein, H. Bauer – Agrana Teun van der Weg – Suiker Unie

Dextranase trial in Wissington Andy Dilks, Mike Blowers – British Sugar 2nd ESST Conference

Joint meeting with Verein Deutscher Zuckertechniker and Fachverein der Zuckerfabriken Österreichs Bratislava, 30 May to 1 June 2011

Nitrite in molasses Posters

Nitrite in the process of sugar manufacture – a litera- Extension and optimisation of Cosumar‘s Casablanca ture review sugar refinery in Morocco Stefan Frenzel1, Mats Bengtsson2 Fahmi Brahim, Steffen Kaufmann – BMA 1 Südzucker, 2 Nordic Sugar

Fractal shallow bed ion exchange technology – a flexi- Nitrite in feed – An analytical challenge ble solution for today’s sugar processing Hanjo Puke – Südzucker Bernd-Christoph Schulze1, Oliver Tzschätzsch1, Dennis Costesso2 1 ESCON; 2 ARi Legal background and nutritional aspects of nitrite in feed Anne Jacob Waterlander – Suiker Unie Current understanding of beet quality parameters af- fecting processing performance – A survey of the ESST Scientific Committee John Jensen, Martin Bruhns, Jan Maarten de Bruijn General sugar technology

Analysis of sucrose in diluted solutions at Aarberg RHEWUMs reliable and economical solutions for scree- sugar factory ning and conveying in the sugar industry Quido Smejkal1, Nebojša Francuski2, Thomas Franken- S. Schuetz, D. Koch, K. Duddek – Rhewum feld3 – 1QUIDO-Engineering Berlin; 2Schmidt & Ha- ensch; 3Zuckerfabriken Aarberg und Frauenfeld AG Applications for drying and cooling sugar in respect of specific needs and ambient conditions Legionella in sugar factory process waters – Analysis Hartmut Hafemann, Henning Griebel – BMA and control in Nordic Sugar. Christer Bergwall – Nordic Sugar Technical improvements for digital on-line colour analyzer Lime kilns for beet, cane and refinery processing – im- Bertrand Gaillac, Coraline Trintignac – Iteca provements and innovations Michael Hünerlage – Eberhardt GmbH Strong and flexible thermal and environmental cou- pling between pulp drying and sugar process Soil sieving machines for smell reduction Oliver Vidal – Maguin André Pollex, Felix Czapla, Birgit Kerner, Rudolf Po- dolsky – Nordzucker AG