Sustainability of the Sugar and Sugar-Ethanol Industries

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8412-2598-5
Verlag: American Chemical Society

Buch, Englisch, Band 1058, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: ACS Symposium Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Sugar and ethanol processers working in the both the sugar and sugar-ethanol industries, as well as researchers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eggleston, Gillian

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Lebensmittelindustrie, Nahrungsmittelindustrie
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Analytische Chemie Umweltchemie, Lebensmittelchemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Eggleston, Gillian
Edited by Gillian Eggleston, Lead Scientist/Research Chemist, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

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.

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.