Sugar Recovery Percentage Calculator

Work out sugar recovery percentage instantly with clear inputs, formula shown and shareable results.

About Sugar Recovery Percentage Calculator

Sugar recovery is sugar produced as a percentage of cane crushed, typically 9-12% in Indian mills. Comparing it with pol in cane shows how much of the available sucrose the factory actually captured; the gap is lost in bagasse, filter cake, molasses and undetermined losses.

Formulas

Sugar recovery

Recovery % = sugar produced x 100 / cane crushed

Efficiency

Recovery against pol = recovery % x 100 / pol in cane %

Worked example

With the default values below, Sugar Recovery Percentage Calculator returns Sugar Recovery of 10.800%. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.

Inputs used

Cane Crushedminimum 0.01 tonnes: 10,000 tonnes
Sugar Producedminimum 0 tonnes: 1,080 tonnes
Sucrose In Cane (Pol)accepts 1–25 %: 13.5 %
Sugar Priceminimum 0 per tonne: 36,000 per tonne

Results

Sugar Recovery: 10.800%
Recovery Against Pol In Cane: 80.00%
Sucrose Lost Per 100 Tonnes Cane: 2.700
Value Of Sugar Produced: $38,880,000.00

Step by step

1Values used
2Sugar recovery
3Efficiency
4Sugar Recovery= 10.800
5Recovery Against Pol In Cane= 80.00
6Sucrose Lost Per 100 Tonnes Cane= 2.700
7Value Of Sugar Produced= 38,880,000.00

Assumptions and limits

The result is derived only from the 4 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
Figures are rounded for display to 3 decimal places, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.

How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.

Frequently Asked Questions

What drives recovery down?

Immature or overripe cane, staleness between harvest and crushing, extraneous matter, poor milling extraction and high molasses purity. Cane crushed more than 24 hours after cutting can lose a full point of recovery.

Why is molasses loss unavoidable?

Sucrose crystallisation stops being economic once the mother liquor becomes too viscous and impure. Final molasses always retains sugar that cannot be recovered by crystallisation.