Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply - Embrapa

• Developing technologies to add value to the production chain by using
coproducts, residues and wastes.
• Developing technologies that use energy biomass for other purposes
in the fine chemistry and pharmaceutical industries.
• Generating technologies that help farmers, agro-industries and remote
communities achieve sustainable energy self-sufficiency.
• Integrating the concepts of agroenergy and carbon market into the
processes.
• Developing processes for obtaining innovations based on oleaginous
plant biomass, including oil chemistry.
Energy forests
• Making available technologies that enable the full use of forest biomass
for energy purposes and diversifying the matrix of energy products
obtained from forestry products.
• Developing technologies that promote energy densification in reforested
areas.
• Generating technologies to replace the coal used in various applications.
• Developing technologies that have a social impact and help insert
low-income communities into the energy forest chain.
• Promoting the integration of the concepts agroenergy and carbon
market.
Biogas
• Developing biodigester studies and models.
• Modeling biogas production systems.
• Evaluating the use of biofertilizers as organic fertilizer.
• Developing equipment to use biogas as a heat source.
• Developing biofertilizer transportation and distribution equipment.
• Improving biogas-fueled equipment to use for generating electric power.
• Developing biogas compression and storage systems.
• Developing biogas purification processes.
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