Sugar Drying and Storage
Drying is accomplished first by drying the sugar in a hot rotary dryer, and then by blowing cool air through it for several days in so-called conditioning silos. The finished product is stored in large concrete or steel silos. It is shipped in bulk, big bags or 25 – 50 kg bags to industrial customers or packed in consumer-size packages to retailers.
The dried sugar must be handled with caution, as sugar dust explosions are possible. A sugar dust explosion which led to 13 fatalities was the 2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion in Port Wentworth, GA.
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