Sugar cane-bagasse

Adhesives based on isocyanate (especially PMDl, polymethylene diisocyanate, more exactly polymeric 4,4 -diphenylmethane diisocyanate) have been used for more than 25 years in the wood-based panel industry [88], but still have a low market value in the wood-working industry compared to systems based on UF-, MUF- or PF-resins. The main application is the production of waterproof panels, but also the production of panels from raw materials that are difficult to glue, like straw, bagasse, rice shells or sugar cane bagasse. They can be used as adhesives for wood-based products like particleboard, oriented strandboard (OSB), laminated strand lumber (LSL), medium-density fiberboard (MDF) or... 

Wood and wood waste includes residues from the forest and the mill. Bark, sawdust and other mill wastes are all suitable fuels. Agricultural residues include corncobs, sugar cane bagasse (the stalks after processing), leaves, and rice hulls. MSW materials include paper products, cloth, yard wastes, construction debris, and packaging materials. 

In 2007 Verenium began work on a demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Jennings, LA. The plant is expected to have an output of 1.4 million gallons a year, using sugar cane bagasse and a special breed of energy cane as feedstocks. 

Ind 1949,555-6(Bagasse as a raw material for chemical industry) 6)C.J.West, The Utilization of Sugar Cane Bagasse for Paper,Board,Plas-... 

Such a country is Brazil. Burdened under a massive balance of payments deficit due mainly to a lack of any petroleum reserves, Brazilians have been looking to other fuel sources for some time. Already some Brazilian gasoline contains a substantial percentage of ethanol derived from biomass fermentation (principally sugar cane bagasse and molasses). 

Ferrara, M. A., Bon, E. P. S., and Araujo Neto, J. S. 2002. Use of Steam Explosion Liquor from Sugar Cane Bagasse for Lignin Peroxidase Production by Phanero-chaete chrysosporium. Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol., 98-100,289-300. 

The prices of some pertinent examples of agriculture-based raw materials (biomass) are compared with oil and coal in Table 8.1. It is obvious that the cheapest source of carbon is agricultural waste, i.e. waste plant biomass such as corn stover, wheat straw and sugar cane bagasse, which consists primarily of lig-nocellulose. 

Krishnan, K.A. and Anirudhan, T.S. 2003. Removal of cadmium from aqueous solution by steam activated sulphurised carbon prepared from sugar cane bagasse pith. Water SA, 29 1520-8. 

Paper. Paper is a matted, dried mass of cellulose fibers derived from wood, cotton linters or, more rarely, sugar cane bagasse or other plant stalks. Related products are cardboard and sound-proofing material. 

Waldheim, L., Morris, M., Leal M.R.L.V., (2001) Biomass power generation Sugar cane bagasse and trash. In this proceedings. 

Biomass Power Generation Sugar Cane Bagasse and Trash... 

Evaluation of sugar cane bagasse and trash availability and quality. 

The main objective of the tests, to show that sugar cane bagasse can be used as feedstock in the gasification process, was achieved. The other objectives to find a stable operating regime and to validate the data and parameters used for modelling and scale-up, were also achieved. 

Waldheim, L. et al.. Biomass Power Generation Sugar Cane Bagasse and Trash, in proc. Progress in Thermochemical Biomass Conversion, September 2000,... 

Use of Thermo-Economic Analysis Based on Exergy Concepts to Evaluate the Cost of Electricity From Sugar Cane Bagasse in the Brazilian Sugar Cane Sector... 

Cogeneration in all Brazilian sugar/alcohol plants is from sugar-cane bagasse, but almost all plants bum bagasse in this inefficient way, only to supply process needs. 

Varhegyi G. and Antal M. J., Jr. (19S9) Kinetics of the theimal decomposition of cellulose, hemicellulose, and sugar cane bagasse. Energy Fuels, 3,329-35... 

Varhegyi G., Antal M. J. Jr., Szekely T., Till F., Jakab E. and Szabo P. Simultaneous Thetmogravimetric-mass spectrometric studies of tbe thermal decon sition of biopolymers. 2. sugar cane bagasse in the presence and absence of catalysts. Energy Fuels, 2, 273-7... 

Jollez P., Choinet E. Overend R.P, (1993) Steam-aqueous fractionation of sugar cane bagasse an optiniisation study of process conditions at the pilot plant level. In Advances in Thermochemical biomass conversion (Ed. by A.V. Bridgwater) pp. 1659-69. Blackie, London. 

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