1114 Celina Ave. #17, Nashua, NH 03063 ● www.galaxy-scienfic.com ● 603-821-9650 Introducon Sugarcane was discovered in India between the 6th and 4th centuries BC by Persians. Today, sugarcane is the world’s largest crop by producon quanty. It is culvated in more than 90 countries with Brazil, India and China as the top three producers. For centuries, sugarcane has been culvated to produce sugar. Then its culvaon was expanded to produce liquors, and with today’s technology, use of sugarcane is expanding into an extraordinarily diverse range of value-added products such as ethanol, bioelectricity and bioplascs. There are five major types of sugarcane alcohols: rum, cachaça, rhum agricole, aguardiente, and basi. While rum is made from molasses, a byproduct of sugar producon, the rest are made from sugarcane juice. Cachaça is made in Brazil from fermented and dislled fresh sugar cane juice. Rhum agricole is made in Caribbean countries, from fresh sugarcane juice, which is fermented then dislled and aged. Aguardiente is made in Ecuador, Colombia, and other Andean countries. Basi, made in the Philippines and Guyana, is lightly fermented. To ensure quality and improve producvity, quality control tests are required for every stage of sugarcane liquor producon: e.g. test pol and Brix for molasses; test pol, Brix, sucrose and reducing sugars for sugarcane juice; and test ethanol content for final liquor products. Tradional analycal methods used in the sugarcane liquor industry are comparavely expensive, me-consuming, and usually require varied methods to be used for different parameters. On the other hand, near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has the advantages of being nondestrucve, rapid, and allowing for simultaneous measurements of mulple components. Furthermore, with a calibrated instrument, the end user needs no special skill or spectroscopy knowledge to run the test. Use of FT-NIR Spectroscopy in Sugarcane Liquor Industry
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