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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2008
Robert Jansen, Portela, PT;
John Kerr, South Croydon, GB;
Anthony Baiada, Dagenham, GB;
European Sugar Holdings S.A.R.L., Luxembourg, LU;
Abstract
We disclose a method of inverting sucrose, including (i) determining an initial solids concentration of an aqueous sucrose solution (solids), an initial bed volume (BV) of a sucrose inversion resin system, a minimum target inversion percentage (invert %), a maximum target inversion percentage (invert %), a target maximum hydroxymethylfuran (HMF) concentration (HMF), a minimum target pH (pH), or a maximum target pH (pH); (ii) contacting the sucrose inversion resin system with the aqueous sucrose solution under conditions of aqueous solution flow rate in BV/hr (rate) and aqueous solution temperature in ° C. (temperature) to produce an inverted sucrose solution having an inversion percentage (invert %), an HMF concentration (HMF), and a pH (pH); (iii) observing an instantaneous inversion percentage (invert %), an instantaneous HMF concentration (HMF), or an instantaneous pH (pH) of the inverted sucrose solution; and, if invert %<invert %, invert %>invert %, HMF>HMF, pH<pH, or pH>pH; (iv) changing at least one of the aqueous solution flow rate or the aqueous solution temperature such that invert %≦invert %≦invert %, HMF≦HMF, or pH≦pH≦pH. We also disclose a computing apparatus capable of use in performing a method of inverting sucrose.