The use of alternative fuels, particularly bio-based fuels, has been an important strategy to
achieve greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions compared to petroleum-based fuels …

Sugarcane industry is a major agricultural sector capable of producing sugars with
byproducts including straw, bagasse, and molasses. Sugarcane byproducts are no longer …

Sugarcane has been used as feedstock for production of ethanol on a large scale basis in
Brazil for over three decades, where most of the sugarcane mills produce sugar, ethanol and …

Sugarcane is the base of a successful agroindustrial system in several tropical and
subtropical regions of the world. This industry is evolving towards diversification of its …

Sugarcane is a cash crop that has been a significant source of revenue in many countries
around the world. In the last few decades, sugarcane mills that were only intended for sugar …

Sugarcane ethanol production generates about 360 billion liters of vinasse, a liquid effluent
with an average chemical oxygen demand of 46,000 mg/L. Vinasse still contains about 11 …

Sugarcane straw removal for bioenergy production will increase substantially in the next
years, but this may deplete soil organic carbon (SOC) and exacerbate greenhouse gas …

Purpose The use of bagasse and trash from sugarcane fields in ethanol production is
supposed to increase the ethanol yield per hectare, to reduce the energy demand …

Mechanization in the sugarcane agriculture has increased over the last few years, especially
in harvesting and planting operations, in the Brazilian Center‐South region. The …

Ethanol production is expected to increase to 54 billion litres in 2030. Two alternatives from
an agronomic point of view could be increasing the amount of area under sugarcane …