Composition of sugar cane, energy cane, and sweet sorghum suitable for ethanol production at Louisiana sugar mills.
Summary of "Composition of sugar cane, energy cane, and sweet sorghum suitable for ethanol production at Louisiana sugar mills."
A challenge facing the biofuel industry is to develop an economically viable and sustainable biorefinery. The existing potential biorefineries in Louisiana, raw sugar mills, operate only 3 months of the year. For year-round operation, they must adopt other feedstocks, besides sugar cane, as supplemental feedstocks. Energy cane and sweet sorghum have different harvest times, but can be processed for bio-ethanol using the same equipment. Juice of energy cane contains 9.8% fermentable sugars and that of sweet sorghum, 11.8%. Chemical composition of sugar cane bagasse was determined to be 42% cellulose, 25% hemicellulose, and 20% lignin, and that of energy cane was 43% cellulose, 24% hemicellulose, and 22% lignin. Sweet sorghum was 45% cellulose, 27% hemicellulose, and 21% lignin. Theoretical ethanol yields would be 3,609 kg per ha from sugar cane, 12,938 kg per ha from energy cane, and 5,804 kg per ha from sweet sorghum.
Audubon Sugar Institute, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 3845 Highway 75, St. Gabriel, LA, 70776, USA, MKim@agcenter.lsu.edu.
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20803247
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10295-010-0812-8
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
A plant genus of the family POACEAE widely cultivated in the tropics for the sweet cane that is processed into sugar.
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