sugar production

[I'm a Chubby Baby]

Hi, everyone. I wrote this sentence. I'm especially not sure if 'grow', 'dry' and 'cool' can be used like this or not.

The overview:
Overall, the production of sugar is a man-made process and contains seven linear processes, beginning with the growing of sugar canes and ending with the drying and cooling of sugar crystals.

The sixth step:
The syrup is then poured into a centrifuge where it is being rotated to separate sugar crystals from it.
Does the two 'it' clearly refers to the syrup?

 

[probus]

Yes. "Do the two its ...", not "does the two it."

I would take issue, however, with the use of the present continuous tense. I would omit being.

 

[tedmc]

What do you mean by a man-made process and contains seven linear processes? You can say that a process consists of a series of steps.

I would say the syrup is spinned (in some kind of drum) to separate the sugar crystals from the liquid.

 

[I'm a Chubby Baby]

What do you mean by a man-made process and contains seven linear processes? You can say that a process consists of a series of steps.

I would say the syrup is spinned (in some kind of drum) to separate the sugar crystals from the liquid.

Thanks, did you see the diagram in #1?

 

[5jj]

the syrup is spinned

spun

 

[I'm a Chubby Baby]

Hi, everyone. I rewrote the overview. Please check again, especially the punctuations after the word 'stages'.

Overall, the production of sugar is a man-made process and contains four main stages: farming, crushing, separating and drying.
Overall, the production of sugar is a man-made process and contains four main stages—farming, crushing, separating and drying.

 

[5jj]

the production of sugar is a man-made process

That doesn't work.

Try:

There are four main stages in the production of sugar: farming, crushing, separating and drying.

 

[I'm a Chubby Baby]

That doesn't work.

Thanks, what's wrong with 'the production of sugar is a man-made process'?

 

[emsr2d2]

I think you mean a "manual process" (done by hand, not by machine). "Man-made" doesn't mean the same.

 

[tedmc]

All manufactured products and processes are man-made.
Something done manually does not make use of machines. The production of sugar is not one of them.

 

[5jj]

All manufactured products and processes are man-made.

I wouldn't say that processes were man-made.

 

[tedmc]

I wouldn't say that processes were man-made.

Okay, "man-made" is used normally with physical things, but what I mean is that processes are designed/made by people.

 

[5jj]

Far from all processes are designed/made by people.

 

[tedmc]

Far from all processes are designed/made by people.

I didn't say all processes. I was referring to the manufacturing processes in the production of sugar.