| Title |
Composition of sugar cane, energy cane, and sweet sorghum suitable for ethanol production at Louisiana sugar mills
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology, August 2010
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10295-010-0812-8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Misook Kim, Donal F Day |
| Abstract |
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. |
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| United States | 3 | <1% |
| Uruguay | 2 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 2 | <1% |
| Mexico | 2 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Thailand | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 620 | 97% |
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| Student > Master | 102 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 89 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 82 | 13% |
| Researcher | 72 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 39 | 6% |
| Other | 102 | 16% |
| Unknown | 151 | 24% |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 141 | 22% |
| Engineering | 90 | 14% |
| Chemical Engineering | 65 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 40 | 6% |
| Chemistry | 33 | 5% |
| Other | 83 | 13% |
| Unknown | 185 | 29% |
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