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Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment of Ammonia Production From Residual Bagasse Gasification: A Decarbonization Pathway for Nitrogen Fertilizers

This work evaluates the potential to produce synthetic nitrogen fertilizers by using sugarcane bagasse gasification in the São Paulo state, Brazil, aiming to increase the economic revenues and to decarbonize a chemical sector traditionally based on natural ...

2022

Exergy and economic assessment of renewable electricity generation from sugarcane straw for improved efficiency of sugarcane biorefineries

This work focuses on the revamp of existing sugarcane biorefineries and cogeneration units by using those byproducts, aiming to increase the selling of surplus electricity. The analysis allows identifying potential improvements in the sugarcane cogeneratio ...

2022

Techno-economic and environmental assessment of ammonia production from residual bagasse gasification: a decarbonization pathway for nitrogen fertilizers

Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

2021

Sugarcane bagasse and vinasse conversion to electricity and biofuels: an exergoeconomic and environmental assessment

Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

Biomass conversion into either electricity or biofuels requires various energy intensive processes that may drastically affect its technical and environmental competitiveness against their non-renewable counterparts. Therefore, in this paper, a comparative ...

2020

Exergetic, environmental and economic assessment of sugarcane first-generation biorefineries

François Maréchal

First generation ethanol (1G) contributes to the majority of the ethanol produced worldwide, predominantly centered on corn and sugarcane. Nevertheless, several issues are regularly highlighted concerning the long-term sustainability of this technology, in ...

WARSAW UNIV TECHNOLOGY, INST HEAT ENGINEERING2019

Exergoeconomic and environmental assessment of production and end use of sugarcane residues derivatives

Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego

The upgrade of sugarcane industry residues, such as vinasse and bagasse, has a notably potential for large scale production of biofuels in Brazil. Despite this fact, the biomass conversion into either electricity or biofuels requires various energy intensi ...

Silesian University of Technology2019

Biomass logistics and environmental impact modelling for sugar-ethanol production

François Maréchal

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the supply of sugarcane to mills and also the supply of green harvesting residues to second-generation ethanol plants under three different strategies: chopping, baling and integral harvesting. A dynamic model was deve ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Transition of a South African sugar mill towards a biorefinery. A feasibility assessment

Edgard Gnansounou, Jegannathan Kenthorai Raman, Elia Mercedes Ruiz Pachon, Pavel Vaskan

The survival of the sugar industry in South Africa is under threat due to an unstable and low sugar price, high production cost and old infrastructure. At present, coal and sugarcane bagasse are used as fuels in an inefficient boiler to generate the heat a ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2018

Improved Sugars Release from Chili Post-harvest Residues by Dilute Acid Assisted Lime Pretreatment.

Edgard Gnansounou

Lignocellulosic biomass seems promising renewable feedstocks for the production of biofuels and other value-added products. It is composed of cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin, which are connected by several intra-and inter-polymer linkages. For effecti ...

2018

Bioethanol Production from Sugarcane Green Harvest Residues Using Auxin-Assisted Pretreatment

Edgard Gnansounou, Jegannathan Kenthorai Raman

Bioethanol and biochemicals from agriculture residues are key alternative for transport fuels and fossil chemicals to environmental impact mitigation and rural economy. In biofuels and biochemicals production, pretreatment is the crucial and energy demandi ...

SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD2018

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