warming potential (GWP) and human health indicators of sugarcane ethanol production in Brazil, in the pre-mechanization (100 … agricultural phase of sugarcane ethanol production. A broader assessment of the sustainability of ethanol must account for those … issues, as well as economic and social aspects. Sugarcane-derived ethanol produced in Brazil has been considered one of the …

evaluated in the initial screening process. This work uses the cases of corn and sugarcane ethanol to draw some comparisons on … and second generation technologies in the same site processing corn or sugarcane for ethanol. …

, Brazilian ethanol is produced from sugarcane. The Brazilian route shows up as much more competitive and much less pollution … regarding the country’s innovation system in the sugarcane sector, including sugar and ethanol mills, industrial goods suppliers …Ethanol has been recently of great interest worldwide due to two main reasons. First, it is a viable alternative to oil …

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 …

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 …

in prices, which has given way to ethanol production by other sources of raw materials like sugarcane. Sugarcane ethanol … leading the way in sugarcane ethanol, and its neighbors in Central America are following suit. In 2006, the Central American … free. Those countries have extreme ethanol growth potential with low production costs and large sources of sugarcane. This …

The sugarcane sector in Brazil has been achieving large increases in production since the beginning of the 2000s, owing … to the deregulation of its two main products: sugar and ethanol. This growth has been driven more by the ethanol … the same period. Nevertheless, instability in the supply of ethanol is still a problem in the industry. Structural changes …

Ethanol has gradually gain momentum in the world’s energy market in recent decades with Brazil the largest producers …. The issue of price linkage among ethanol, sugar and oil is particular interesting and important in the context of … Brazilian sugarcane sector. By accounting for the possible structural breaks in the data, we investigate the price linkage of …

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 … hydrolysis of sugarcane bagasse – is integrated into the conventional process. Seven cases were evaluated, among them a … conventional ethanol production plant without hydrolysis, a conventional plant combined with hydrolysis and hydrolysate …