Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply - Embrapa

lines of the CDM projects, as well as developing and perfecting
methodologies associated with pilot projects, in partnership with the private
sector with a view to taking advantage of market opportunities.
Actions in the production chains
The different challenges linked to each component of the energy complex
help define the research priority agenda.
Ethanol
• Eliminating obstacles to the expression of the production potential of
sugarcane.
• Increasing sugarcane productivity, sucrose contents, energy
aggregate, and industrial yield.
• Developing technologies that save inputs and eliminate or mitigate
environmental impacts.
• Developing sugarcane crop management and production system
integration technologies.
• Developing alternative technologies to use all the energy of sugarcane
mills by improving current processes and/or developing new ones.
• Developing new products and processes based on alcohol-chemistry
and the use of sugarcane biomass.
Biodiesel
• Enabling energy densification of raw material having as reference 2,000
kg/ha of oil in the medium term and 5,000 kg/ha in the long term.
• Improving current biodiesel production paths by using ethanol as input
and developing new productions paths.
• Generating technologies that enable the rational use of energy in the
farms and the replacement of fossil carbon sources with renewable
sources.
• Developing competitive, sustainable energy production processes from
organic residues from the animal product processing chains.
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