Lynne Wong's PhD thesis

Table 2.18.
Moisture content in sugar cane dry leaves at Mon Desert Alma
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sugar factory.
Table 2.19. Moisture content in sugar cane dry leaves at FUEL sugar 67
factory.
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Table 3.1. Composition of different parts of cane (Brown and Blouin, 1907).
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Table 3.2. Fibrous physical composition of bagasse (Villavicencio, 1974).
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Table 3.3. Cane samples harvested for fibre extraction. 73
Table 3.4. Preparatory treatment process for fibre extraction from sugar 83
cane plant components.
Table 3.5. Masses of cane samples aged 52 weeks prior to and after fibre 89
extraction.
Table 3.6. Masses of cane samples aged 44 weeks prior to and after fibre 90
extraction.
Table 3.7. Masses of cane samples aged 36 weeks prior to and after fibre 91
extraction.
Table 3.8. Masses of cane components aged 52 weeks after wet and dry 92
sieving.
Table 3.9. Masses of cane components aged 44 weeks after wet and dry 93
sieving.
Table 3.10. Masses of cane components aged 36 weeks after wet and dry 94
sieving.
Table 3.11.
Masses of cane components of R 570 of three ages harvested in
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2001 after fibre extraction and dry sieving.
Table 3.12. Material loss (%) from sugarcane component parts after fibre 96
extraction.
Table 3.13. Dry mass % cane extracted from sugarcane components. 97
Table 3.14. Effect of extraneous matter on fibre/pith ratio in four cane 99
varieties aged 52 weeks.
Table 3.15. Effect of extraneous matter on fibre/pith ratio in four cane 100
varieties aged 44 weeks.
Table 3.16. Effect of extraneous matter on fibre/pith ratio in four cane 101
varieties aged 36 weeks.
Table 3.17. Effect of extraneous matter on fibre % cane in four cane 105
varieties of three ages (using data in Tables 3.8 – 3.10).
Table 3.18. Fibre % cane results by direct cane analysis. 106
Table 3.19. Gross calorific value of sugarcane components. 106
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