The production of ethanol has increased in United States and Brazil in recent years, because of incentives to reduce … gas consumption. In Brazil, there is a big program to use ethanol both as a single fuel or an additive to gas. In US, the … incentive is to use ethanol combined to gas in proportion that can reach to 85 percent of the mix. This situation has prompted …

The need to decrease the United States’ dependency on oil has pushed ethanol to the forefront of energy sources. In the … U.S., corn is used to make ethanol. Corn-based ethanol production has been profitable over the past few years, but there … in prices, which has given way to ethanol production by other sources of raw materials like sugarcane. Sugarcane ethanol …

Ethanol has been recently of great interest worldwide due to two main reasons. First, it is a viable alternative to oil … products, used in light vehicles, which price has been substantially raised in the last years. In second place because ethanol … leadership of ethanol production for the United States, it is internationally recognized as the leading country to develop its …

assessed in terms of the levels of physical-assets performance it presents across three-defined ethanol production clusters …. Results show similar levels of asset performance presented by the in-operation ethanol enterprises, despite regional features …

recovery. Thus, the aim of this study is to assess the incorporation of double-effect distillation in ethanol production, and …

This study carried out an exergetic analysis of a proposed ethanol production scheme in which a new process – enzymatic … conventional ethanol production plant without hydrolysis, a conventional plant combined with hydrolysis and hydrolysate … with their exergetic cost. For the conventional process, in which ethanol and surplus electricity are the major products, a …

Sugarcane is one of the most important industries of the Brazilian economy, and its main products are sugar and ethanol … analysis is used to assess an integrated sugar and ethanol plant with its cogeneration system. The plant was divided into eight …, which produce sugar and ethanol, were used in the process simulation. The analysis has shown that the sub-systems with the …