Method for producing refined sugar from sugared juice, such as raw juice
from sugar cane or from sugar beet, containing sugar and impurities,
which comprises the operations of: tangential filtration of the sugared
juice in order to obtain a retentate and a filtrate, softening of the
filtrate in order to obtain a softened filtrate, concentration of the
softened filtrate in order to obtain a softened syrup, chromatography of
the softened syrup in order to obtain an extract enriched in sugars and a
raffinate enriched in impurities, crystallisation of the extract in two
or more crystallisation/separation steps in order to obtain refined sugar
and a run-off, and combination of the run-off with the softened syrup in
order that they are both subjected to the chromatography operation.