Production of highvalue biobased products from sugar cane bioethanol industry solid and liquid wastes by low energy electrochemical treatment of effluents and pyrolysis of lignocellulosic materials using thermomagnetic catalysts.

Project code: ERANET-LAC-EFCP (2)

Project start date: 01/09/2017

Project end date: 31/08/2019

Budget: 545.562RON

Reporting period:

1. 01/09/2017 -29/12/2017

Theoretical review and theoretical basis. Review biomass pyrolysis literature.

Output: State of the art, theoretical basis for pyrolysis module.

2. 30/12/2017 -31/12/2018

Waste conversion and productions, Conventional pyrolysis test

Output: methods and materials for pyrolysis testing, installed testing facilities, assay reports, data analysis.

3. 01/01/2019 -31/08/2019

Project management

Results communication- scientific articles, technical and press note articles, project teaser and presentations, project closeout, closeout report.

A project is proposed, to evaluate the technical feasibility, and the economic, environmental and social sustainability of a process to produce high value biochemical products from sugar cane bioethanol industry solid and liquid wastes, involving effluents and solids pretreatment stages, followed by pyrolysis and bio oil fractionation.