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)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 ... -
CRC Sugar Industry innovation through biotechnology : final report 2B8
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2010)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 ... -
Opportunities for the Australian sugar industry in greenhouse gas abatement and carbon trading : final report QUT027
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2009)New policies and market drivers are currently being implemented to stimulate additional investment in technologies and energy sources which result in reduced greenhouse gas emissions. In addition there is a rising demand ... -
Development of value-added products from sugarcane boiler ash : final report 2011/903
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2015)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 ... -
Investigating renewable feedstocks such as (Hibiscus Cannabis – Kenaf and Crotalaria Juncea – Sunn Hemp) for generation at Mackay Sugar Limited : final report GGP063
(BSES, 2014)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 ... -
Study of the sugar and fuel alcohol markets in Brazil : SRDC final report
(SRDC, 1998)This is a study of the world's largest sugar producer, Brazil. Its purpose is to describe the highly complex recent trends in sugar policies, investment and exports, and in the innovative fuel alcohol program. And, it ... -
Preliminary investigations on the feasibility of co-production of cane pulp and raw sugar
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 1990)Laboratory-scale mechanical refiners were used to prepare four varieties of sugar cane for depithing, and for the production of refiner mechanical pulp (RMP) and chemi-mechanical pulp (CMP) from depithed canes and from ... -
Analysis of bagasses and trash utilisation options : SRDC final report QUT008
(SRDC, 2006)The range of potential value adding processes for bagasse and trash currently being considered by the industry is diverse. There is, therefore, an urgent need for a preliminary evaluation of the relative merits of these ... -
Crop investigation into grain; legume crops suitable for incorporation into a cane rotation : SRDC final report CG009
(SRDC, 1998)Funding was obtained from the Australian Government Sugar Research and Development Corporation (SRDC) to undertake a feasibility study into opportunities for grain and legume crop industries in the coastal sugar ... -
Cane fibre yields : final report PR04011
(BSES, 2004)This report was prepared for the New South Wales sugar industry to provide an estimate of the additional cane-based fuel available for the proposed cogeneration project. It summarises the work done to date in NSW, as well ... -
Constituents of non-sugar products of sugarcane : SRDC final report BS85S
(BSES, 1993)Residues of selected pesticides were measured in samples of bagasse, filter mud and molasses from six sugar mills, in samples of dunder from two distilleries, and in cane tops and soil from four canegrowing areas of ... -
Evaluate sugar beet for potential to produce sugar at Mackay Sugar Experiment Stations : final report TE93005
(BSES, 1993)Can sugar beet be profitably grown at Mackay? Sugar yields from beets are continuing to increase in overseas countries. Results from experiments at Kalamia Estate in the Burdekin area indicated that sugar beet out-yielded ...