Ethanol is produced in large scale from sugarcane in Brazil by fermentation of sugars and distillation. This is … of these alternative fermentation processes in ethanol production, energy consumption and electricity surplus produced in …, some improvements in the process can be introduced in order to improve the use of energy. In current distilleries, a …

Sugarcane is one of the most important industries of the Brazilian economy, and its main products are sugar and ethanol …. Most of the industrial plants produce both products in an integrated process, in which the sugarcane bagasse is a by … energy required for the process, and also producing electricity surplus that may be sold to the grid. In this paper, exergy …

The growing need to expand the use of renewable energy sources in a sustainable manner, in order to provide energy … represented. In order to evaluate energy requirements, steady-state simulation of the distillation process was carried out using …

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 …

Along with a growing global ethanol market, investment in the production of sugarcane is growing, targeting new … sugarcane and (large-scale) ethanol. The sector is highly concentrated. More recently, however, small ethanol distilleries have …-smallholder experiences be transferred from Brazil to other contexts? Part 1 describes the Brazilian sugarcane and ethanol sector with regards …

this benefit is therefore paramount. High-energy-density crops with low perishability allow farmers to grow small … quantities on existing lands. Highly perishable, low-density crops such as sugarcane require tight integration between growers …

The need to decrease the United States’ dependency on oil has pushed ethanol to the forefront of energy sources. In the … 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 …

, 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 …

As global demand for food, fuel, and energy resources rise and concerns about climate change and the depletion of … fossil fuels become more pressing; demand for renewable energy projects has grown. Thanks to related scientific developments … investors and regulators working with renewable energy.This thesis contends that although business evaluation of renewable …