Bioelectricity versus bioethanol from sugarcane bagasse: is it worth being flexible?

FF Furlan, RT Filho, FHPB Pinto, CBB Costa… - Biotechnology for …, 2013 - Springer
Background Sugarcane is the most efficient crop for production of (1G) ethanol. Additionally,
sugarcane bagasse can be used to produce (2G) ethanol. However, the manufacture of 2G …

Assessing the production of first and second generation bioethanol from sugarcane through the integration of global optimization and process detailed modeling

FF Furlan, CBB Costa, G de Castro Fonseca… - Computers & Chemical …, 2012 - Elsevier
There is a worldwide effort to make economically feasible the use of lignocellulosic biomass
for production of biofuels. In sugarcane industry, cane juice (sucrose) is fermented for …

Enhancing the autonomy of students in chemical engineering education with LABVIRTUAL platform

JFO Granjo, MG Rasteiro - Education for Chemical Engineers, 2020 - Elsevier
Engineering educators have been developing different approaches to supplement scientific
background and further develop the ability for autonomous and critical thinking in students …

Online tools to support teaching and training activities in chemical engineering: enzymatic proteolysis

S Villaró-Cos, T Lafarga - Frontiers in Education, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The practical teaching or training of enzymatic proteolysis can prove challenging because of
the lengthy duration of the process, the complexity of identifying short amino acid …

[HTML][HTML] A new method for predicting sorption isotherms at different temperatures using the BET model

PB Staudt, CP Kechinski, IC Tessaro… - Journal of food …, 2013 - Elsevier
A new methodology to predict sorption isotherms at different temperatures is proposed in
this work. The classical BET model is used coupled with the Clausius–Clapeyron equation …

A new method for predicting sorption isotherms at different temperatures: Extension to the GAB model

PB Staudt, IC Tessaro, LDF Marczak, RP Soares… - Journal of Food …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this work, the new methodology for parameter estimation using less experimental data
proposed in Staudt et al.(2013) is extended to be used with the GAB model. In addition, a …

Improving second generation bioethanol production in sugarcane biorefineries through energy integration

CM Oliveira, AJG Cruz, CBB Costa - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
New technologies for producing ethanol from sugarcane bagasse and other raw materials
have been developed as an answer for the world claim for renewable energy. Second …

[HTML][HTML] Sucrose crystallization: modeling and evaluation of production responses to typical process fluctuations

BJC de Castro, M Marciniuk, M Giulietti… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2019 - SciELO Brasil
This work describes a phenomenological model of the two-massecuite system for sucrose
crystallization, developed using EMSO software. In most Brazilian sugarcane industries …

LABVIRTUAL—A platform for the teaching of chemical engineering: The use of interactive videos

JFO Granjo, MG Rasteiro - Computer Applications in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This article focus on the pedagogical tools in LABVIRTUAL (http://labvirtual. eq. uc. pt), a
broad scope virtual platform intended to support the learning at the undergraduate level of …

Multiobjective optimization of a sugarcane biorefinery involving process and environmental aspects

CBB Costa, E Potrich, AJG Cruz - Renewable Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Process modeling and simulation are essential to predict process energetic demands, and
determine possible throughputs and process emissions in biorefineries. In this paper non …