Characterization of crystals growth in a crystallizer-evaporator through Digital image processing using the sobel filter

Abstract

The sugar is consumed world widely, because it is one of the main sources of calories in the diets of every country. For its obtaining, a long process is required, since the cane seed germinates until the sugar is marketed nationally or internationally. Inside the obtaining process of the sugar it is found the stage of crystallization. The work presented in this article, proposes a digital image processing technique based on the Sobel filter. The obtained results let to characterize the sugarcane crystal growth in a simple effect evaporator crystallizer in order to define when the crystallization process must be finished.