Product diversification and value addition

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Research outcomes: Focus on achieving an established research program that monitors, facilitates and develops alternative and innovative uses for sugarcane.

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    A profitable future for Australian agriculture; biorefineries for higher-value animal feeds, chemicals and fuels : final report 2015/902
    (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2019) O'Hara, I; Harrison, M; Speight, R; Doherty, W; Vancov, T; Zhang, Z; Cox, S; Hobson, P
    The Biorefineries for Profit project began in 2016 with a goal of establishing profitable bioproduct technologies for the Australian sugar, cotton, forestry, and pork industries. The project has developed technologies to turn agricultural waste into high-value products including animal feeds, chemicals, and advanced fuels. The project has also built the value-chain knowledge and human/organisational capacity needed to capture future biorefinery opportunities for Australian agriculture.
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    CRC Sugar Industry innovation through biotechnology : final report 2B8
    (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2010) Anne Rae, A; Hodoniczky, J
    Sugarcane has a highly effective carbohydrate biosynthetic and storage metabolism that has facilitated its use for the production of sucrose. Sugars are increasingly seen as low-cost, renewable organic resources which can be modified to produce food ingredients and industrial raw materials. For the sugar industry, alternative sugars offer a means of diversification in an area close to the existing core business. However a major restriction to development of alternative products has been ownership of enabling intellectual property by third parties. This project aimed to identify alternative sugars with desirable commercial properties and capture the IP to enable their production.
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    Development of value-added products from sugarcane boiler ash : final report 2011/903
    (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2015) Clarl, M; Lake, N; Yee, L
    Bagasse fly ash from co-generation plants is often recycled into the sugarcane fields. However, bagasse fly ash contains quartz (naturally accumulated by the cane) that may be re-suspended into respirable-sized particulate by wind erosion and cultivation, where it can cause silicosis. Therefore, the transformation of the bagasse fly ash waste stream into value-added products such as zeolites and or concretes has been investigated. Factorial Design Analysis (neural network development) has been utilised to define the optimal conditions for zeolite manufacture and addition rates to concretes.
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    Investigating renewable feedstocks such as (Hibiscus Cannabis – Kenaf and Crotalaria Juncea – Sunn Hemp) for generation at Mackay Sugar Limited : final report GGP063
    (BSES, 2014) Muscat, J
    As the Australian sugar industry embarks on the opportunity to value add from its waste streams our industry will become more sustainable into the future. This project has investigated the opportunity to replace the coal feedstock at the Racecourse Mackay Sugar co-generation facility with fibre, produced from fibre crops such as Kenaf and Sunn Hemp to power the steam boiler to generate electricity. The co-generation unit produces 31mwh of electricity and is powered by bagasse the waste stream from the sugar process and coal when the bagasse runs out. 30,000 tons of coal is burnt firing the steam boiler to generate electricity in conjunction with bagasse, the coal feedstock would require 90,000 tons of fibre to allow for the total replacement of coal. The fibre feedstock would also attract a green certificate value as the product is a renewable source.