Sugar Crystallization | Britannica
Crystallization. Syrup from the evaporators is sent to vacuum pans, where it is further evaporated, under vacuum, to supersaturation. Fine seed crystals are added, and the sugar mother liquor yields a solid precipitate of about 50 percent by weight crystalline sugar. Crystallization is a serial process. The first crystallization, yielding A sugar or A strike, leaves a residual mother