To achieve satisfactory and consistent quality, many natural and synthetic sweeteners require purification to remove color, undesirable taste and odor, and turbidity.

Ecosorb® Multifunctional Adsorbents are more effective at removing many of these contaminants than powdered activated carbon (PAC).  Ecosorb products are a family of moist, dust-free powders with excellent filtration characteristics. 

Benefits of Ecosorb adsorbents versus traditional PAC include:

• Reduced dosages required due to the superior adsorbent capacity of Ecosorb products
• Elimination of diatomaceous earth body feed generally required when filtering PAC
• Reduced solid waste generation (50-90% reduction is typical)
• Ability to run either as a slurry addition followed by filtration, or as a precoat operation, where adsorption is achieved as feed stock passes through an Ecosorb  precoated  filter
• Ability to remove contaminants that PAC will not remove

Typical applications include:

• Reducing color, taste, odor, and turbidity in liquid sugar and bottling syrups
• Cane sugar refining to reduce color, odor, and turbidity prior to crystallization
• Beet sugar decolorization
• Reducing color, taste, odor, and turbidity in HFCS (high fructose corn syrup)
• Reducing color, taste, and odor in sorbitol, mannitol, and other natural and artificial sweeteners
• Reducing color in maple syrup
• Reclaiming scrap sugars