The world has been searching for clean and renewable alternatives to provide new
materials and energy and, consequently reducing the dependence on petroleum fossil fuels …

Sustainable development is the common goal of the current concepts of bioeconomy and
circular economy. In this sense, the biorefineries platforms are a strategic factor to increase …

Sustainable biomass valorization, as agricultural and forestry wastes, and the development
of conversion processes could bring additional benefits like solving the residue disposal …

Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant and sustainable raw material, but its conversion into
ethanol fuel has not yet achieved large-scale industrialization and economic benefits …

This study proposes the use of a waste management procedure based on the technical
development and practical implementation of a “Multi-Waste Plant” concept. A final point of …

The present work aims to determine a suitable yield-productivity balance in bioethanol
production from hydrothermally pretreated sugarcane straw via pre-saccharification (PS) …

Anaerobic digestion (AD) of effluents in sugarcane biorefineries may improve the energy
balance in the bioethanol production process and the environmental suitability of wastes …

First-generation ethanol plants offer successful, commercial-scale bioprocesses that can, at
least partially, replace fossil fuels. They can act as platforms to integrate lignocelluloses …

Biomass ethanol production presents shortcomings related to enzymes cost and efficiency of
xylose fermentation. Commercial enzymes used in second-generation ethanol (2GE) plants …

In the present paper, a bi-level optimization approach is proposed to synthesize Heat
Exchanger Networks (HEN), based on a hybrid meta-heuristic method. Simulated Annealing …