The given diagram demonstrates the various stages in the production of sugar from sugar beets.
Overall, this process includes 9 distinct stages, commencing with harvesting and transporting the beets and concluding with separating sugar crystals in a centrifuge.
To start with, beets are harvested from the farmland before being transported to a factory by a lorry. There, employees will move these beets to a shaker to eliminate dirt and rocks, after which they are sent to a beet washer. Once the process of washing the beets is done, they are cut into small pieces which called cossettes. Then, these beet cossettes are mixed with water and boiled appropriately at seventy degree over a period of time to extract the sugar juice.
As this juice may still be dirty, milk of lime is added to the juice to clean and remove impurities. The mixture is then purified in a filter in order to acquire a clean sugar juice and remove the milk of lime. Following this, these juice is again heated several times to evaporate any water in it. Finally, to crystallize it, liquid juice is rotated in a centrifuge and resulting in the formation of sugar crystals, ready for distribution to customers.