Developing efficient practices for producing bioethanol from sweet sorghum, evaluating several varieties of the plant and growing environments
| Autor: | Valentin Vlăduț, Oana Emilia Constantin, Lorena-Diana Popa, Florin Nenciu, Gabriel Nae |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Sustainable planting Emerging technologies Global warming Agricultural engineering 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Natural resource Environmental sciences Biofuel Production (economics) Environmental science GE1-350 Productivity Sweet sorghum 010606 plant biology & botany 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | E3S Web of Conferences, Vol 286, p 03020 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2267-1242 |
| Popis: | The challenges we face today envisaging environmental protection, starting from global warming and climate change, up to natural resources depletion, creates opportunities for developing new technologies for biofuel production. Considering that most biofuels used at the moment are based on energy-intensive crops, the question arises whether occupying large areas of land to the detriment of food is justified or not, especially as these crops generally deplete the soil of nutrients. In the present paper we propose a different approach for assessing an easily adaptable energy plant named Sweet Sorghum, that can grow with low input requirements, in difficult growing conditions, on contaminated or poor-nutrient and dry soils, and yet having a high productivity potential. Our research directions are targeted towards identifying the best opportunities for producing bioethanol from Sweet sorghum testing different varieties and sustainable planting conditions. We have been established several experimental cultures and evaluated the potential for producing biofuels using different techniques, such as juice extraction and fermentation and lignocellulose processing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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