OBJECTIVES To investigate the risk of lung cancer among sugar cane farmers and sugar mill workers. METHODS A case-control study was conducted based in six hospitals in the predominantly sugar cane farming districts of the province of Maharashtra in India. Newly diagnosed, histologically confirmed cases were identified from these hospitals between May 1996 and April 1998. Other cancers were ch...

Okinawan sugar cane rind was fed to Wistar strain rats to examine its effects on the serum and liver cholesterol (Chol) and triglyceride (TG). At the same time, the effects of sugar cane rind on the fecal excretion of neutral sterols of the rats were examined. There were no significant differences found in the food intakes and the liver weight between the rats fed with sugar cane rind and other...

Accelerating biofuel production has been promoted as an opportunity to enhance energy security, offset greenhousegas emissions and support rural economies. However, large uncertainties remain in the impacts of biofuels on air quality and climate1,2. Sugar-cane ethanol is one of the most widely used biofuels, and Brazil is its largest producer3. Here we use a life-cycle approach to produce spati...

The deficiency in existing sugar cane crystallization automatic control system is difficult to measure some key parameters on line, such as mother liquor supersaturation, mother liquor purity, crystal content and crystal size distribution. Controlling brix with PID can only reflect the massecuite concentration of sugar cane crystallization process, but it is hard to guarantee the crystal qualit...

ebrahim panahpour1*, parviz ahmadi2,  mahmoud shomeili3 1,2- department of soil science, college of agriculture, ahvaz branch, islamic azad university, ahvaz, iran 3- manager agronomi department sugarcane research and training institute khuzestan, iran *corresponding author email: [email protected] received: 22 july 2015                                                                       ...

Sugarcane bagasse contains cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose, 39-42%, 20-25% and 25-27% respectively. So it is can be used as a sugar source in many processes. Lignin and hemicellulose must be removed before hydrolysis of cellulose. Several different pretreatment approaches have been studied. The purpose of this research is comparison of acid, ozone and combination of ozone-acid as pretreatme...