Sugar Density Measurement

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Shahid Waqas Chaudhry

Dear List,

I am looking for a low-cost solution for sugar density measurement. The application is simple: based on the sugar density, an alarm is switched on/off for operator to take action.

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Shahid Waqas Chaudhry
 
It sort of depends on what you are trying to measure, and what you define as low cost.

If you can live with a batch system, you could automatically fill a container and weigh it with a load cell and calculate the density from the weight and known volume. then automatically empty the container and go for another cycle. This produces some waste, but if you can live with a relatively long measurement time and the waste, its fairly low cost (a load cell, analog card.
 
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Sugar density can be measured with vibrating element transducers. These are used in brix determination, evaporator control, dissolvers and similar. They are also used with sugar syrups and solutions.
The choices include dedicated digital density transmitters and the "coriolis" style density transmitters.
A web seacrh for density transducers should bring your to a range of different manufacturers.
 
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