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This paper aims to evaluate the potential for electricity and ethanol production in Central America using sweet sorghum …
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Suitability of sweet sorghum in Greece, where irrigation supply during crop development is limited as rainfall is scarce and evapotranspiration loss is high, is examined in relation with radiation availability. A two-year field experiment was conducted, in central Greece, imposing four soil...
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The global energy crisis and continual soaring prices of fossil fuels force people to seek the new and recycled alternative energy sources hard. Biodiesel oil as well as bioethanol fuel, as two new and clean fuels for environmental protection, have already been approved as substitutes for fuel...
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experimental results in the shaking flasks showed that the order of influence on improving ethanol yield was (NH4)2SO4>MgSO4>K2HPO4 … and ethanol content were 5h and 6.2% (v/v), respectively, and ethanol yield was 91.61%, which was increased by 9.73% than … determined optimum inorganic salts supplement dose could be used as a guide for commercial ethanol production. The fluidized bed …
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system consists of the following processes: sweet sorghum cultivation, crude ethanol production, ethanol refining and by …-product utilization. The plant capacities of crude ethanol and pure ethanol, in different fractions of useful land, are optimized …. Assuming a minimum cost of investment, transport, operation and so on, the optimum capacity of the pure ethanol factory is 50 …
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cost-effective conversion of fermentable sugars in sweet sorghum stems into ethanol with advanced solid-state fermentation … substrate is less than 30h, and the ethanol yield reaches 90.5% of the theoretical yield. A total of 16ton of sweet sorghum … stems (with 13.5% sugar content and 70% moisture) are used to produce 1ton of ethanol (99.5%, v/v). The cost of fuel ethanol …
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Energy crops constitute significant potential for meeting the future energy need worldwide. In addition, agricultural lands offer an alternative to the agriculture which is referred to as energy farming. The studies on energy crops in biofuel production show that they are quite an economical and...
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For a commercial breakthrough of ethanol production from lignocelluloses, one main challenge still exists in achieving … high ethanol concentrations during fermentation. Using sweet sorghum as a feedstock for ethanol production has the …=4.0, 190°C) to a water-insoluble solids content of 7.5%, 53g/L ethanol was achieved after 168h of fermentation. The …
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Pretreatment of sweet sorghum bagasse at 100°C at three lime doses (g per g bagasse), 0, 0.05, and 0.1; two water contents (ml per g bagasse), 7 or 10; and two treatment durations (h), 1 or 2 were evaluated. Composition analysis of pretreated samples revealed that the higher the lime dose, the...
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Technological process of a pilot plant of solid substrate fermentation of refining ethanol from sweet sorghum stalk was … ethanol yield was 90% and the spent residue of fermentation can be converted to forage. In addition, Net Present Value (at … feasible. The ethanol price had highest effect on the changes of Internal Return Rate of the project. And annual operation cost …
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