US Patent Issued to PFEIFER & LANGEN IP on Sept. 22 for "Process for producing thin juice for the production of sugar, process for producing sugar and sugar production plant" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,217, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to PFEIFER & LANGEN IP GMBH (Cologne, Germany).

"Process for producing thin juice for the production of sugar, process for producing sugar and sugar production plant" was invented by Mark-Oliver Burkhardt (Pfungstadt, Germany) and Wolfgang Klosterhalfen (Kerpen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for producing thin juice (17, 27) for the production of sugar, wherein lime milk-in a first liming step (3)-is first added to a raw juice (14) to obtain a mixture of raw juice and lime milk (15), and then carbon dioxide-in a first carbonation step (4)-is ad...