Diversifying the portfolio of sugarcane biorefineries: Anaerobic digestion as the core process for enhanced resource recovery

The continuous search to combine clean energy supply with the efficient exploitation of bioenergy sources is one of the most recurring efforts to meet global energy demands on an environmentally friendly basis. Sugarcane biorefineries play a central role in this context by providing sugar, ethanol and bioelectricity. However, the high energy required in ethanol production limits resource recovery efficiency in conventional sugarcane processing,...