Sustainability of the Sugar and Sugar-Ethanol Industries: 1058 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0841225982 ISBN 13: 9780841225985

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2011

Riassunto

This book provides an increasing awareness, understanding, and implementation of the recent great and dramatic advances in both the worldwide sugar and sugar-ethanol industries. Surplus sugar on the world market, competition from high-intensity sweeteners, fluctuating prices, demand for production of high quality raw sugars, government policies, water- and energy-intensive factories and refineries and, in particular, the current worldwide impetus to produce alternatives to petroleum-based fuels, are putting pressure on the sugar industry to diversify and add value for sustainability. All biomass from sugarcane, sugar beet, and sweet sorghum plants, including leaves and tops, are being intensely investigated for utilization, including cellulosic ethanol production and cogeneration of heat and bioelectricity in some countries. It is expected that in the next few years sugar will be the "new oil " because sugar is superior feedstock for the production of platform chemicals for a wide range of industrial products. Sugar crops are excellent carbohydrate feedstocks because of their availability, and because they are amongst the plants giving the highest yields of carbohydrates per hectare. The significant potential of sugar crops as food and fuel ethanol (bioenergy) crops is currently driving rapid expansion of production areas throughout the world. This book highlights the successful sustainable efforts in sugar and sugar-ethanol industries around the world, emphasizing both production and processing practices as well as new measurements of sustainability and innovations.

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L'autore:

Dr. Gillian Eggleston is a Lead Scientist/Research Chemist with over 25 years of experience in carbohydrate chemistry and industrial sugar processing. She has conducted and led research on industrial sugar degradation reactions, sucrose loss measurements across industrial unit processes, the use of advanced clarification systems in raw sugar manufacture, sugarcane deterioration, industrial enzyme applications, and effects of sugarcane trash on processing.

Contenuti:

• Preface
• Dedication
• 1. Future Sustainability of the Sugar and Sugar?Ethanol Industries
• Gillian Eggleston
• Measurement of Sustainability in the Sugar and Sugar?Ethanol Industries
• 2. Measuring and Monitoring Sustainability in the Sugar and Sugar?Ethanol Industry
• Peter Rein
• Sustainability Efforts in Sugar Industries Around the World
• 3. Major Challenges and Changes in the European Sugar Sector
• Geoff Parkin and Jan Maarten De Bruijn
• 4. The Sugarcane Crop for the Sustainable Production of Sugar and Other Cane Derived Products in Mauritius
• Kassiap Deepchand
• 5. The Success and Sustainability of the Brazilian Sugarcane?Fuel Ethanol Industry
• H. V. Amorim, M. Gryschek, and M. L. Lopes
• 6. The South African and Southern African Regions - Part I: Sugarcane Production
• Barbara M. Muir, Ruth Rhodes, Predhie Naidoo, and Martin J Eweg
• 7. The South African and Southern African Regions - Part II: Sugarcane Processing
• Barbara M. Muir, Paul M. Schorn, Stephen Peacock, and Charles Kruger
• Sustainable Production of Fuel Ethanol from Sugar Crops and Products
• 8. Pretreatment Technologies for the Conversion of Lignocellulosic Materials to Bioethanol
• Giovanna M. Aita and Misook Kim
• 9. Sustainable Production of Energycane for Bio-Energy in the Southeastern United States
• Ryan Viator, Paul White, and Edward Richard, Jr.
• 10. Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris L) as a Biofuel Feedstock in the United States
• Lee Panella and Stephen R. Kaffka
• 11. Opportunities and Challenges of Sweet Sorghum as a Feedstock for Biofuel
• Sarah E. Lingle
• Sustainable Improvements in the Quality Supply of Sugar Feedstocks
• 12. Approaches to Raw Sugar Quality Improvement as a Route to Sustaining a Reliable Supply of Purified Industrial Sugar Feedstocks
• John R. Vercellotti, Sharon V. Vercellotti, Gavin Kahn, and Gillian Eggleston
• 13. Enzymatic Analysis of Mannitol as a Leuconostoc mesenteroides Deterioration Marker in Sugarcane and Sugar Beet Factories
• Gillian Eggleston, Jessica Gober, and Clay Alexander
• 14. Sustainability of Low Starch Concentrations in Sugarcane through Short-Term Optimized Amylase and Long-Term Breeding Strategies
• Marvellous Zhou, Collins Kimbeng, Serge Edme, Anna Hale, Ryan Viator, and Gillian Eggleston
• Value-Added Products for a Sustainable Sugar Industry
• 15. Value-Added Products for a Sustainable Sugar Industry
• Mary An Godshall
• 16. Liquid Sugars Produced in Sugar Refineries: Advantages of Large Central Units Serving the Sustainable and Competitive Needs of the Food Industry
• François Rousset
• 17. The Role of Sugar Beet Pulp Polysaccharides in the Sustainability of the Sugar Beet Industry
• Arland Hotchkiss, Marshall Fishman, and LinShu Liu
• Indexes
• Author Index
• Subject Index

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0841225982
• ISBN 13: 9780841225985
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Redattore: Eggleston Gillian