Crossword clues for bagasse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bagasse \Ba*gasse"\ (b[.a]*g[a^]s"), n. [F.] Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. The residue from processing sugar cane after the juice is extracted
WordNet
n. the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants
Wikipedia
Bagasse is the fibrous matter that remains after sugarcane or sorghum stalks are crushed to extract their juice. It is dry pulpy residue left after the extraction of juice from sugar cane. Bagasse is utilized as a biofuel and in the manufacture of pulp and building materials.
"Agave bagasse" is a similar material that consists of the tissue of the blue agave after extraction of the sap.
Usage examples of "bagasse".
If each pass extracts fifty percent of the juice remaining in the cane or bagasse, then two sets of rollers in series will extract seventy-five percent, and three sets, just under ninety percent.
An additional inefficiency of the inferior down-time mills is that bagasse has to be moved to drying areas and then to the evaporation area where it is used as fuel.
The new improved model saves in the handling and bagasse can go straight from the mill to the fires of the evaporation kettles.
By washing the cane between sets of rollers with hot water, the sugar is washed out of the bagasse.
In fact, washing of the cane or bagasse will be extremely difficult in the vertically arranged sugar mill.
Modern vacuum evaporation can drop energy needs by two thirds, and condensing the water from the evaporators gives safe water for washing the bagasse.
Up-timers will know that they can feed the crushed cane (bagasse) through the mill several times to improve the yield.
The typical small farm mill takes one or two stalks at a time, and hand feeding cane, especially the bagasse, is very labor intensive.
Sugar cane producers can use the spent stalk (bagasse) as fuel and need no additional fuel.
When they have finished grinding the cane, they form the refuse of the stalks (which they call bagasse) into great piles and set fire to them, though in other sugar countries the bagasse is used for fuel in the furnaces of the sugar mills.
Now the piles of damp bagasse burn slowly, and smoke like Satan's own kitchen.
Fill that whole region with an impenetrable gloom of smoke from a hundred miles of burning bagasse piles, when the river is over the banks, and turn a steamboat loose along there at midnight and see how she will feel.
Now the piles of damp bagasse burn slowly, and smoke like Satan’s own kitchen.
The problem in Hershey was the heavy soot that came from burning bagasse, the sugarcane after the juice had been pressed out.