High Value Added Products from Hydroalcoholic Delignification of Sugarcane Bagasse

AREA, M.C., FELISSIA, F.E., VALLEJOS, M.E., CURVELO, A.A.S.

Atlanta

Otro; Earth Day Global Poster Session 2011, Category: Biochemicals; 2011

The sugar industry could become a modern and efficient agro-industry, by diversifying its production into large amounts of by-products and energy. Sugar cane bagasse, the main by-product of the sugar cane industry, is a fibrous residue of sugar cane resulting from conventional milling. Sugar mills generate approximately 270 kg of bagasse (50% moisture) per metric ton of sugar cane. The remaining bagasse is usually stock-piled, constituting an environmental problem due to the risk of spontaneous combustion of the stored bagasse. However, out of the about 130 sugar cane known derivatives, over half are derived from bagasse.