Advancing anaerobic digestion of sugarcane vinasse: Current development, struggles and future trends on production and end-uses of biogas in Brazil

ADNF Junior, C Etchebehere, D Perecin… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a multipurpose technology. One of the AD outcomes is biogas
that can be used to supply a local thermal demand, electricity generation or upgraded to fuel …

Resource recovery from sugarcane vinasse by anaerobic digestion–A review

AFR Silva, YL Brasil, K Koch, MCS Amaral - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The increase in biofuel production by 2030, driven by the targets set at the 21st United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21), will promote an increase in …

Evaluation of filamentous fungal biomass cultivated on vinasse as an alternative nutrient source of fish feed: Protein, lipid, and mineral composition

S Karimi, N Mahboobi Soofiani, T Lundh, A Mahboubi… - Fermentation, 2019 - mdpi.com
The rapid growth of aquaculture and scarcity of conventional fish feed supplements has
prompted the introduction of new sustainable supplementation sources. In this study, the …

Fertirrigation with sugarcane vinasse: Foreseeing potential impacts on soil and water resources through vinasse characterization

LT Fuess, IJ Rodrigues, ML Garcia - Journal of Environmental …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reports the characterization of the polluting potential of sugarcane vinasse, the
main wastewater from ethanol production. Compositional data from vinasse samples …

Valorization of sugar-to-ethanol process waste vinasse: a novel biorefinery approach using edible ascomycetes filamentous fungi

RB Nair, MJ Taherzadeh - Bioresource technology, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of the present work was to study the integration of edible ascomycetes filamentous
fungi into the existing sugar-or molasses-to-ethanol processes, to grow on vinasse or …

Bioprospecting of exopolysaccharide-producing bacteria from different natural ecosystems for biopolymer synthesis from vinasse

V Ventorino, B Nicolaus, P Di Donato… - Chemical and Biological …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Exopolysaccharides (EPSs) belong to a family of organic thickeners or
alternative hydrocolloids of microbial origin. Because the chemical structure offers beneficial …

Preparation of chemically-activated high surface area carbon from waste vinasse and its efficiency as adsorbent material

O Kazak, YR Eker, H Bingol, A Tor - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2018 - Elsevier
Herein, a chemically activated carbon (AC) has been prepared from molasses-to-ethanol-
process waste (vinasse). The procedure involves the preparation of carbonaceous spheres …

Cofiring low-rank coal and biomass in a bubbling fluidized bed with varying excess air ratio and fluidization velocity

PR Wander, FM Bianchi, NR Caetano, MA Klunk… - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Cofiring coal and biomass is one of the alternatives to reduce emissions from thermoelectric
power plants. The influence of biomass fraction in the mixture is an important research topic …

Combustion of thermochemically torrefied sugar cane bagasse

M Valix, S Katyal, WH Cheung - Bioresource technology, 2017 - Elsevier
This study compared the upgrading of sugar bagasse by thermochemical and dry
torrefaction methods and their corresponding combustion behavior relative to raw bagasse …

Exploring potentials for bioresource and bioenergy recovery from vinasse, the “new” protagonist in Brazilian sugarcane biorefineries

LT Fuess, PNL Lens, ML Garcia, M Zaiat - Biomass, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vinasse management in biorefineries bears a burden for sugarcane industries. Despite its
high potassium-related fertilizer potential, a series of negative environmental impacts is …