Sweet Sorghum Alternative Fuel and Feed Pilot Project

Technical Report · Tue Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1344379· OSTI ID:1344379

Slack, Donald C. ^[1]; Kaltenbach, C. Colin ^[2]

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1. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States). Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Dept.
2. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)

The University of Arizona undertook a “pilot” project to grow sweet sorghum on a field scale (rather than a plot scale), produce juice from the sweet sorghum, deliver the juice to a bio-refinery and process it to fuel-grade ethanol. We also evaluated the bagasse for suitability as a livestock feed and as a fuel. In addition to these objectives we evaluated methods of juice preservation, ligno-cellulosic conversion of the bagasse to fermentable sugars and alternative methods of juice extraction.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• Contributing Organization: Pinal Energy, LLC, Maricopa, AZ (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: EE0004132
• OSTI ID: 1344379
• Report Number(s): DOE-UAZ-0004132-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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