Strontian process

The strontian process is an obsolete chemical method to recover sugar from molasses.

The French chemists Hippolyte Leplay and Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut developed a process for extracting sugar from molasses, reacting them with barium oxide, to give the insoluble barium-saccharates.

[5] Only later, through the work of Carl Scheibler (patents dated 1881, 1882, and 1883), was it possible to apply the strontian process on an industrial basis.

The Scheibler procedure came into use in the Dessauer Sugar Refinery (in Dessau), through Emil Fleischer.

[8] One of the biggest mines, at Drensteinfurt, was named after Dr. Reichardt, the director of the Dessauer Sugar Refinery.