Tools for buyers and technologists

Each line (price × net mass, delivery, packaging, pallets) is brought to the chosen basis: from an amount with VAT to an amount without VAT by dividing by (1 + r/100), and back by multiplying; on the same basis the amount is unchanged. Delivery per tonne is first multiplied by the net mass of the lot. Lines with the status “included in the price” or “not applicable” are not added. Total = sugar + delivery + packaging + pallets; price per tonne = total / net mass.

Currencies are not converted. VAT rates come from your offers; the calculator does not infer them from the country or export status and does not assess VAT recoverability. If the net masses differ, prices per tonne are compared and totals are shown separately.

Masses are accepted to 1 g (tonnes — up to 6 decimal places, kilograms — up to 3) and converted to whole grams; the numbers of units, pallets and vehicles are computed in integers without tolerances: 10.05 t / 50 kg = exactly 201 units, 10.050001 t — 202.

Packaging units = ⌈required net (kg) / net per unit⌉, rounded up to a whole number; the actual net mass of whole units and the excess over the request are shown. Pallets = ⌈units / units per pallet⌉, with the number of units on the last pallet. Gross = actual net + tare of all units + mass of all pallets.

Vehicles: by mass ⌈gross / payload⌉; by indivisible pallets (or units without pallets) — how many identical full pallets fit a vehicle by mass and whether the partial pallet fits the remaining capacity; by pallet spaces ⌈pallets / spaces⌉. The largest known estimate is shown as a lower bound. The calculation does not check stacking, dimensions, axle loads or load securing.

Apparent purity, % = 100 × Pol / °Bx. Both values refer to the same sample: Pol as a percentage of sample mass (after conversion from the polarimeter reading), °Bx as refractometric dry substance. The calculator applies no temperature corrections and does not accept raw °Z readings.

If Pol exceeds °Bx, the value is shown without clipping to 100 %: check the units, the measurement basis and the sample.

With idealised conservation of dry substance m₁ × C₁ = m₂ × C₂, so the final mass m₂ = m₁ × C₁ / C₂. Evaporation: water = m₁ − m₂ (requires C₂ ≥ C₁). Dilution with pure water: water = m₂ − m₁ (requires C₂ ≤ C₁). At equal concentrations the change in water is zero.

For liquid juices and syrups without crystals. The model ignores stream losses and changes in composition, including sucrose decomposition; for technical solutions °Bx gives an approximate result. The calculator does not distribute the load between evaporator effects.

Yield, kg/t = 1000 × white sugar mass / beet mass processed (both for the same period). Sucrose in beet, t = beet mass × sugar content / 100. Sucrose in molasses, t = molasses mass × sucrose content of molasses / 100.

The card shows independent streams. The unaccounted difference between sucrose in beet, sugar and molasses is not reported as “process losses”: a full balance needs the other streams (pulp, filter cake, work in progress) and stock changes, especially over short periods. Actual output is not estimated from sugar content alone.