Late last month, Amyris Biotechnologies opened a plant in Campinas, Brazil, to demonstrate large - scale production of hydrocarbons from
sugarcane processed using its engineered microbes.
American agribusiness company Cargill and Brazilian sugar - cane processor Grupo USJ have entered into a joint venture (JV) called SJC Bioenergia in order to triple
sugarcane processing in Brazil to 15...
Not only that but
sugarcane processing is cheaper too — the leftover waste from sugarcane can be used to produce electricity to run the mill.
Not exact matches
Once a luxury item, sugar really hit its stride in the 18th century when a
process was developed to extract sugar from beets, which grow in a wider variety of climates than
sugarcane.
We are studying flowering in
sugarcane to identify ways of controlling the
process.
We don't try to reinvent the wheel — we've always followed a unique
process and we like sticking to it - we combine the finest Arabica coffee, and
sugarcane rum, grown as neighbours and blended in Veracruz, Mexico.
The fermentation
process includes the addition of local red rice, setting it apart from standard
sugarcane rum.
The estate
sugarcane is harvested by hand and
processed in minimal ways that retain its terroir all the way to the bottle.
A cassava
processing plant will be constructed at Diare, a
Sugarcane factory at Kadia and a tomato
processing factory at Nabogu.
But the
process can use almost any sugar, whether direct sucrose from
sugarcane or the polysaccharides derived from breaking down cellulose in water.
According to Sanskrit texts, cooks in India
processed sugarcane into giant crystals through boiling and cooling extracted
sugarcane juice.
Plants are split into broad categories based on how they
process carbon, with the two main groups being C3 (e.g. rice, wheat, trees) and C4 (most grasses including corn and
sugarcane).
Depending on the nature of plant - growth environment for
sugarcane or beet root,
sugarcane and / or beet molasses used in the fermentation
process, may be highly concentrated in harmful things like insecticides etc..
Refined sugar is raw sugar (from
sugarcane or sugar beets) which has undergone a refining
process to remove molasses.
• Eatables prepared from milk and
sugarcane juice [jaggery might be a substitute but perhaps
processed still and maybe date powder or molasses are better].
It goes through a long
process — the juice from
sugarcane is purified using heat and lime, which is further
processed to make sugar crystals and molasses.
While the film and the memoir have been given the unfair label of being ONLY ABOUT «slavery is bad» (as if that fact alone would not be worthy) many of the more subtle points have been ignored, but is best summed up this way, «It is notable not only for its lucid description of plantation life, with detailed passages on the methods by which cotton and
sugarcane were harvested and
processed, and how slaves were fed, housed and punished, but also for the author's evenhanded treatment of his subject: although he denounces slavery as an institution, Northup expresses his gratitude to the masters who treated him with gentleness and generosity, and shows a surprising ability to forgive even the most unimaginable cruelties.»
They also planted a coffee and
sugarcane plantation and built mills to
process them.
In the case of
sugarcane ethanol, a lot of energy inputs are required, especially for purifying the ethanol, but those inputs are being satisfied by burning the
sugarcane ethanol residues to produce
process heat.
Additionally, Brazilian
sugarcane is often boiled and
processed using leftover plant matter — as opposed to using fossil fuels (like in the United States) to separate the plastic materials — said Mayfield.
In Amyris's
process,
sugarcane stalks are crushed and the juices are then placed in 5,000 - liter fermenters with the company's engineered yeast, which makes a diesel - precursor molecule.
Brazil is attractive to Amyris because it is the second - largest producer of ethanol in the world; while the company will make hydrocarbons, not ethanol, it will use the country's existing infrastructure for growing and
processing sugarcane.
While corn ethanol
processing is a net electricity consumer,
sugarcane ethanol is a net electricity exporter.
Though sugar is refined from both
sugarcane and beets, cane sugar is preferred — accounting for about 70 percent of the world's sugar supply — and it is the molasses left over from this
process that most rum makers use.
It also plans on buying Brazilian
sugarcane mills and ethanol plants, and converting them to run on its
process.
According to Designboom, «for every 10 tonnes of
sugarcane crushed during the production
process, nearly 3 tonnes of wet bagasse remains as residue.
Sugarcane Cheaper to
Process Than Corn The reason Brazil was chosen for this plant?