New Business Opportunities in the Sugar‑alcohol Industry: Alcohol Chemistry and Biorefineries

Abstract

and summarized by the following expression:Raw material (non fractionated) + Combination of processes → Miscellaneous products Therefore, in order achieve an integrated production of food, animal feed, chemicals, materials and fuels an important key concept is to develop and establish the above described industrial com-Source: Based on KAMM et al., 2006.FIGURE 1 Biomass-based platform. FIGURE 2 Schematic of sugarcane refinery.