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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Start date: 2010Subject: search.filters.subject.Fibre crops

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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.