Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply - Embrapa

• Improving the biodiesel quality and diminishing biodiesel shelf time.
• Evaluating the impact of biodiesel on motors and associated systems.
• Improving motors and associated systems for use with biodiesel.
• Carrying out studies on the emissions of biodiesel motors.
• Developing technologies for the use of cakes in human and animal nutrition.
• Developing new glycerol-derived products.
• Making available processes that use biomass from oleaginous plants to
the fine chemistry and pharmaceutical industries.
• Developing new products based on oil chemistry.
• Integrating the agroenergy chains, such as ethanol/biodiesel, forests/
biodiesel, and biogas/biodiesel, using residues/biodiesel.
Energy forests
Forestry technology
• Establishing the dynamics of the energy-biomass production systems.
• Establishing forestry parameters (spacing, fertilization, rotation, etc.) that
maximize sustainable forest biomass production.
• Defining multiple-use systems adapted to small-scale tree farmers.
• Developing technologies that will enable the establishment and
management of energy forests in areas unsuitable for agriculture and in
areas degraded due to improper agricultural management.
• Developing new management practices and specific harvesting schemes
for the generation of biomass for energy purposes.
• Identifying and selecting tree species with appropriate calorific power to
be used as alternatives to eucalyptus in the production of forest biomass in
different regions of the country, including bamboo species.
• Developing agro-forestry arrangements appropriate for small farms.
• Identifying alternatives for the production of forest biomass from non-timber
activities.
• Improving biomass harvesting, transportation and storage techniques.
• Developing integrated planning models, including the various sources
of energy, efficient-use technologies, environment, etc.
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