Ethanol production potential from AFEX? and steam-exploded sugarcane residues for sugarcane biorefineries [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 621.48 Nuclear engineering
• Thông tin xuất bản: Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2018
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: Article No. 127 : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 262997
• Chủ đề: 1. 09 biomass fuels; 2. Afex?; 3. Bagasse; 4. Cane leaf matter; 5. Enzymatic hydrolysis

Tóm tắt

Expanding biofuel markets are challenged by the need to meet future biofuel demands and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, while using domestically available feedstock sustainably. In the context of the sugar industry, exploiting under-utilized cane leaf matter (CLM) in addition to surplus sugarcane bagasse as supplementary feedstock for second-generation ethanol production has the potential to improve bioenergy yields per unit land. In this study, the ethanol yields and processing bottlenecks of ammonia fibre expansion (AFEX?) and steam explosion (StEx) as adopted technologies for pretreating sugarcane bagasse and CLM were experimentally measured and compared for the first time.