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Multi-objective Optimization of a Solar Assisted 1st and 2nd Generation Sugarcane Ethanol Production Plant

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Alberto Mian, Anna Sophia Wallerand, Gianluca Ambrosetti, Juliana Queiroz Albarelli

Ethanol production sites utilizing sugarcane as feedstock are usually located in regions with high land availability and decent solar radiation. This offers the opportunity to cover parts of the process energy demand with concentrated solar power (CSP) and ...

Abo Akademi University, Thermal and Flow Engineering Laboratory2014

Sustainability assessment of lignocellulosic biorefineries under uncertainty

Juan David Villegas Gomez

Biorefinery concepts refer to the integrated production of food, fuel, power, commodity chemicals, and polymers from biomass, mimicking the structure of a fossil-based refinery. The use of lignocellulosic biomass as feedstock for biorefineries has been pro ...

EPFL2014

New alternatives for the fermentation process in the ethanol production from sugarcane: Extractive and low temperature fermentation

Adriano Viana Ensinas

Ethanol is produced in large scale from sugarcane in Brazil by fermentation of sugars and distillation. This is currently considered as an efficient biofuel technology, leading to significant reduction on greenhouse gases emissions. However, some improveme ...

Elsevier2014

Thermo-Economic Optimisation of Integrated Ethanol and Methanol Production in the Sugarcane Industry

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Emanuela Peduzzi, Priscilla Caliandro, Sandro Onorati

The present paper evaluated a sugarcane biorefinery producing ethanol, through the conventional process by sugars fermentation and methanol through bagasse and leaves gasification, hot cleaning and synthesis. The sugarcane biorefinery was modelled using fl ...

Aidic Servizi Srl2014

Nonenzymatic Sugar Production from Biomass Using Biomass-Derived gamma-Valerolactone

Jeremy Luterbacher

Widespread production of biomass-derived fuels and chemicals will require cost-effective processes for breaking down cellulose and hemicellulose into their constituent sugars. Here, we report laboratory-scale production of soluble carbohydrates from corn s ...

2014

A Numerical Framework and Benchmark Case study for Muti-modal Fuel Efficient Aircraft Conflict Avoidance

Maryam Kamgarpour, John Lygeros

We formulate fuel optimal conflict free aircraft trajectory planning as a hybrid optimal control problem. The discrete modes of the hybrid system capture the air traffic procedures for conflict resolution, e. g., speed and turn advisories. In order to solv ...

2014

Ethanol and lignin production from Brazilian empty fruit bunch biomass

Edgard Gnansounou, Jegannathan Kenthorai Raman

Brazil Government is promoting palm plantations to use degraded land for biofuels. Palm production is expected to increase 35 per cent in future and there would be profuse biomass available that needs to be handled efficiently. Therefore, in this study the ...

Elsevier2014

Increasing Efficiency of Fuel Ethanol Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass by Process Integration

François Maréchal, Martin Gassner

The conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol is currently one of the most popular options for sustainable production of transportation fuel from renewable resources. Due to the resistance of lignin compounds to biological degradation and the import ...

American Chemical Society2013

Thermo-Economic Optimization of Integrated First and Second Generation Sugarcane Ethanol Plant

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Victor Codina Gironès, Juliana Queiroz Albarelli

The sugarcane industry has been responsible in some countries for the production of most of the sugar and ethanol available in the world for internal and external markets. In this sector, ethanol can be produced by fermentation of sugars obtained directly ...

2013

Energy Consumption Versus Antioxidant Activity of Pressurized Fluid Extracts from Pfaffia glomerata Roots

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Juliana Queiroz Albarelli, Diego Tresinari dos Santos

Conventional extraction techniques have been applied to obtain antioxidant extracts from Pfaffia glomerata roots, most of the times, using polar extracting solvents. Even if these techniques are able to provide extracts with antioxidant activities, more en ...

2013

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