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Patented Oct. 17, 1972
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ably.
These mixtures, however, have been widely used be
cause they have constituted the only possible vehicles for
10 Claims
stuff.
The invention is based on the principle of disconnect
All of the above problems have plagued those workers
ing linear non-crystallizable sugar molecules from one 25 in the prior art attempting to develop a technique for the
another with no deleterious side-effects (e.g., taffying,
utilization of molasses in an e?icient manner.
decomposition, carbonization) on their intrinsic proper
The process of the present invention solves all the prob
ties.
lems we have mentioned above. The product of the
As is well known, certain sugars are crystallizable and
present invention is not comparable with any heretofore
produced.
cium-phosphates.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS
quantities.
Nevertheless, the alimentation of animals with such
a product (which should be its most widespread use due
to its peerless source of energy) has so many drawbacks,
mainly in countries where there is no rapid system of
cided importance particularly in the fattening of such 65 solid state, being easily soluble in water. Upon dissolu
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a normal appearance.
i.e., by evaporation.
experiment.
Example 4.Tolerance levelsexperiment (swines)
TABLE 1
gain in weight
Wt. percent
Total sugars _____________________________ __ 56-64
Proteins
________________________________ __
2.98
F203
CaO ____________________________________
___________________________________ __
_..
7.91
MgO
S04
P205
0.58
____________________________________ __
1.10
___________________________________ __
2.24
25
Co-Cu-Ma-Zn-(micro-elements)
Kzo/Nago ______________________________
______________._
__ Trace
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immobilizing phosphorus.
EXPERIMENT (A)
Dry molasAnimals
weight
gain per
treated
Days
(Gr.)
day (Gr.)
100
30
100
11. 760
20
30
6. 000
Average
ses ration
Dry molas-
Number of animals: 12
1st ration:
Concentrated-1 kg.
Dry molasses-500 gr.
2nd ration: Concentrated-d kg.
Control ..................... __
Average
weight
Animals
ses ration
gain per
treated
(Gr.)
day (Gr.)
100
200
900
20
200
I claim:
'1. A process for the production of dry solid molasses
60 comprising adjusting the pH of a liquid molasses with
an alkaline agent to from about 8 to about 10.5 followed
by drying.
2. A process according to claim 1 wherein the pH
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molasses is dried by spray-drying.
8. A process according to claim 7 wherein said liquid
6
References Cited
UNITED STATES PATENTS
2,105,745
1,983,434
2,991,179
2,967,106
1/1938
12/1934
7/1961
1/1961
solids.
9. A process according to claim 1 wherein said dried
product is neutralized to a pH of from about 6.8 to about
MORRIS O. WOLK, Primary Examiner
7.2 by the addition thereto of an acidic agent.
10 S. MORANTZ, Assistant Examiner
10. A process according to claim 9 wherein said acidic
agent is selected from the group consisting of mono
US. Cl. X.R.
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