Generation of surplus electricity in sugarcane mills from sugarcane bagasse and straw: challenges, failures and opportunities

A Fioranelli, WA Bizzo - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Sugarcane mills currently use sugarcane bagasse to cogenerate heat and electricity,
supplying the process with mechanical, thermal and electrical energy. Some of these plants …

Sugarcane straw availability, quality, recovery and energy use: a literature review

MRLV Leal, MV Galdos, FV Scarpare, JEA Seabra… - Biomass and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Sugarcane straw represents, under Brazilian conditions, approximately one third of the total
primary energy of sugarcane in the field. Today, its use for energy is incipient and it is mostly …

Ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass: techno-economic performance in short-, middle-and long-term

CN Hamelinck, G Van Hooijdonk, APC Faaij - Biomass and bioenergy, 2005 - Elsevier
The state of the art of hydrolysis-fermentation technologies to produce ethanol from
lignocellulosic biomass, as well as developing technologies, is evaluated. Promising …

Production of bioethanol and other bio-based materials from sugarcane bagasse: integration to conventional bioethanol production process

MOS Dias, AV Ensinas, SA Nebra… - … research and design, 2009 - Elsevier
Ethanol may be produced using sugarcane bagasse as raw material through the
Organosolv process with dilute acid hydrolysis, thus increasing ethanol production with the …

Outlook for advanced biofuels

CN Hamelinck, APC Faaij - Energy policy, 2006 - Elsevier
To assess which biofuels have the better potential for the short-term or the longer term
(2030), and what developments are necessary to improve the performance of biofuels, the …

Techno-economic analysis for a sugarcane biorefinery: Colombian case

J Moncada, MM El-Halwagi, CA Cardona - Bioresource technology, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper a techno-economic analysis for a sugarcane biorefinery is presented for the
Colombian case. It is shown two scenarios for different conversion pathways as function of …

A review of renewable energy based cogeneration technologies

NT Raj, S Iniyan, R Goic - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
A major focus of the current energy debate is how to meet the future demand for electricity.
Conservation in buildings and industry, and conversion of utility central station capacity to …

Energy from sugarcane bagasse in Brazil: An assessment of the productivity and cost of different technological routes

GA Dantas, LFL Legey, A Mazzone - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
Bagasse from sugarcane is traditionally used in the Brazilian sugar and ethanol industry to
meet the energy needs of its own production processes and, more recently, to generate …

Improving bioethanol production from sugarcane: evaluation of distillation, thermal integration and cogeneration systems

MOS Dias, M Modesto, AV Ensinas, SA Nebra… - Energy, 2011 - Elsevier
Demand for bioethanol has grown considerably over the last years. Even though Brazil has
been producing ethanol from sugarcane on a large scale for decades, this industry is …

Micro combined heat and power (MCHP) technologies and applications

MM Maghanki, B Ghobadian, G Najafi… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2013 - Elsevier
Micro-cogeneration, also termed micro combined heat and power (MCHP) or residential
cogeneration, is an emerging technology with the potential to provide energy efficiency and …