 Biorefinery study of availability of agriculture residues and wastes for integrated biorefineries in BrazilT. Forster-Carneiro, M.D. Berni, I.L. Dorileo and M.A. Rostagno Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2013, vol. 77, issue C, 78-88 Abstract: Brazil has a great potential for use renewable raw materials in biorefineries. It is one of the largest producers of agricultural and animal commodities, which produce large amounts of residues and wastes. These agricultural residues and animal waste can be effectively transformed to energy and other products in systems similar to a ethanol refinery where an integrated process involves conversion for biomass into fuel, energy and chemicals, integrated in the context of a biorefinery. The objective of this work is the determination of the actual availability of main agricultural residues and animal wastes generated in Brazil and of their generation potential index and their prospects for 2020. The results indicate that the sugarcane has the highest agronomic availability, reaching 157 million tons of fresh material and an estimated reuse potential of 19.6 million tons (dry basis), followed by soybeans, rice, maize, orange, wheat, cotton, cassava and tobacco. Keywords: Agriculture residue; Animal waste; Biomaterials; Biomass to liquid technology (BTL); Biorefineries (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:recore:v:77:y:2013:i:c:p:78-88 DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2013.05.007 Access Statistics for this article Resources, Conservation & Recycling is currently edited by Ming Xu More articles in Resources, Conservation & Recycling from Elsevier |
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