Wednesday, October 30, 2013

THE DSM—DEDINI SUSTAINABLE MILL: A NEW CONCEPT IN DESIGNING COMPLETE SUGARCANE MILLS

By J.L. OLIVÉRIO, V.B. CARMO and M.A. GURGEL
Dedini S. A. – Indústrias de Base
jose.oliverio@dedini.com.br

Abstract

FORalmost 500 years, sugarcane has been considered almost only as a raw material for sugar
production.  In the past decades, in Brazil, it has alsobeen used for ethanol production. So, the
complete sugarcane mill’s design evolved significantly in that direction, utilising sugarcane
juice as a feedstock for sugar and ethanol processes. Recently, for environmental, economical, social, in other words, for sustainability reasons, the world started to search for new and cleaner energy sources.
As a consequence, world interest in ethanol grew spectacularly, due to its environmental qualities and because it is produced from renewable biomass. That scenario changed the prospect for sugarcane: it allowed sugarcane to reach a new and higher dimension, and to generate a cycle of new businesses, derived from traditional and new products. This paper has the objective to show how that evolution is modifying and will continue to influence the complete sugarcane mill design, considering technological
development and sustainability evolution. The paper describes an integrated sugarcane mill with the most advanced disruptive (breakthrough) innovations, considering the technological hierarchy of first, secondand third generations, in bioelectricity, bioethanol, and integrated biodiesel production.
Also, sustainability is incorporated intothe concept of the mill resulting in an upgraded solution to an optimal design. In summary, the paper has the objective toshow the upcoming sugarcane mill, the
DSM – Dedini Sustainable Mill, designed for maximum efficiency and sustainability,
producing six bioproducts, in an approach named ‘the 6 BIOS revolution’.

KEYWORDS: Ethanol, Sugarcane, Sustainable, Bioelectricity, Biomass.


Plenary Proc. Int. Soc. Sugar Cane Technol., Vol. 27, 2010 
International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists Proceedings (Abstracts) 
XXVIIth Congress 
March 7–March 11, 2010, Veracruz, Mexico 

ISBN: 978-0-949678-37-9  

http://www.issct.org
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