Question: A counter - current leaching with water is to be used in order to obtain sugar from 2 0 0 k g of sugar beet.

A counter-current leaching with water is to be used in order to obtain sugar from 200kg of sugar beet. It contains 24% sugar, 14% moisture and 62% inert insoluble solid. It is desired that, the final extract contains 1.2kg sugar/8kg water and slurry should have sugar not exceed 0.05kg sugar/kg inert solid. The value of N for the slurry is constant. Calculate;
a) the composition and amount of the overflow and the underflow
b) the percentage of sugar extracted from sugar beet.
 A counter-current leaching with water is to be used in order

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