Sugarcane - Biofuel Residue With Variable Brix And Diameters | High Yield, Pest Control, Renewable Energy, Soil Improvement, Sustainable

Sugarcane

• Every hectare of sugarcane
  harvested leaves behind about 10 tonnes of dried leaves of
  sugarcane, called sugarcane trash.
  
• Sugarcane trash should be
  recovered from the fields through mechanic harvesting.
  
• The trash resists biodegradation,
  and therefore cannot be used as directly as a fertilizer.
  
• When sugarcane trash is burnt,
  most of the organic matter and nutrients in the trash are lost.
  
• A charring process is developed
  for converting sugar-cane trash into high-value char.
  
• Sugarcane smut spores in trash
  bales used for garden mulch or stock feed could spread smut to cane
  fields if the trash comes in close contact with a commercial crop.
  
• Dried leaves of sugar cane, or
  sugar-cane trash, resist biodegradation and cannot be used either as
  cattle fodder or as a raw material for making compost.
  
• Due to the herbaceaous nature of
  sugar cane trash, water leaching was proposed and investigated as a
  means of reducing the slagging and fouling potential of the raw
  fuel.
  
• Considering the size of the global
  sugarcane industry, it is apparent that there is an enormous
  potential for the introduction of sugarcane trash for year-round
  electricity generation at sugarcane mills.
  
• Trash mulching also plays an
  important role in reducing borers infestation in sugarcane and has
  been recommended as an alternative for chemical control of sugarcane
  shoot borer, Chilo infuscatellus Snell.
  
• Sugarcane bagasse and sugarcane
  trash are residues from sugar and alcohol production, an economic
  activity that is well established in Brazil.
  
• Millions of tons of agro-waste
  from rice, sugarcane, and groundnut plants (rice husks, sugarcane
  trash) in India could produce up to 60,000 million units of
  bioenergy