E10 is a blend of 10% bioethanol and 90% gasoline that can be used in the engines most cars without causing damage. Currently for blend, Jamaica imports from Trinidad & Tobago Brazil because production at an early stage. However, country has great potential production. In order to assess environmental economic feasibility Jamaica, this paper presents life cycle assessment case study two differe...

In the light of increasing public pressure to minimise environmental pollution, green cane harvesting will probably soon become the norm worldwide. The effects of delivering and crushing green cane, which contains all of the associated extraneous matter, on the cost of production and the quality of sugar are well known. In consequence of these effects the different options for dry cleaning the ...

Conversion of Glucose to Ethanol In the U.S., corn is the predominant source of starch (glucose) used to produce ethanol. With the exception of sugar cane, corn provides the highest ethanol yields compared to any other feedstock being used (Table 2). However, research is underway to develop methods to convert carbohydrates from cellulosic feedstocks such as softwood (Arwa et al., 2005), non-sta...

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 20 Number 3 2005 © Asia Pacific Press This article seeks to determine the short to mediumterm impact of EU Sugar Protocol reforms on Fiji’s sugar industry. The expected impact on the livelihoods of sugarcane producers, the area remaining under cane, sugar cane output and sugar production are derived under various price scenarios using industry census production ...

A considerable amount of South African raw sugar is sold to export markets. Consistently good filterability of this sugar is important for satisfying the requirements of customers. To the refiner, the filterability of raw melt is important as this affects refinery throughput. Analysis of filtrationimpeding impurities in raw sugar has shown that, among other things, poor juice clarification coul...

EVERY sugarcane grower would like the best levels of performance for all traits, such as high cane yield, high sugar content, resistance or tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress, and every other desirable attribute, all combined together into the same variety. In the real world, however, almost all the important crop traits vary continuously and mostly independently, in genetic populations gen...

The Amalgamated Sugar Company has been involved for years in the application of ion exclusion chromatography to the enhanced recovery of sucrose from sugarbeet process streams. Laboratory-scale tests of a simulated moving bed chromatography system for sucrose recovery from sugarbeet molasses were initiated in August 1981 and pilot scale tests were begun shortly thereafter. The technology develo...

In recent years, the new trend is towards bio-fuel. One of these biofuels is ethanol (ethyl alcohol), which could be produced economically by the controlled fermentation of biomasses. The results of the alcoholic fermentation of beet sugar molasses and wheat milling residues (Akalona) were fed into a computer program. The kinetic parameters for these fermentation reactions were determined. Thes...

Adding sugar to the diet has been reported to improve production in dairy cows. In each of 2 trials, 48 lactating Holsteins (8 with ruminal cannulas) were fed covariate diets for 2 wk, blocked by days in milk into 12 groups of 4, and then randomly assigned to diets based on alfalfa silage containing 4 levels of dried molasses (trial 1) or liquid molasses (trial 2). In both studies, production d...