Sugacane Bagasse

Sugacane Bagasse


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