Vac Filter Testing

Getting ready to test a homemade vac filter system. Using 66 Brix table sugar solution is pretty obvious. What would be a good substance to mimic maple sand? Cinnamon? Also, what is the particulate size of maple sand?





Sorghum demos since 2000 - Maple Syrup demos since 2004 with about 20 taps
Stainless batch pans - 12" gap x 78" brick furnace
Portable 12 V vacuum tapping systems, glucose meter sap analysis
2 homemade RO systems, bench scale vacuum boiling systems
Syrup portfolio includes maple, boxelder, black walnut, butternut, sycamore, black birch,
50-50 beech-silver maple, sugar cane syrup, sorghum
Additionally have tapped basswood, musclewood and sweetgum

It's probably easier to bring a half gallon to a boil for 5 minutes, re-adjust for density and filter the reheated syrup. Bringing it to a boil should cause sugar sand to form.