date:May 18, 2022
cessing trials at 100L scale. If that goes well, the Indian sugar company Natems Sugars are very interested in building a factory to run this process, which would be the first of its kind in the world.
Scientists on the project, which received 1.8 million in funding from the Newton Bhabha Fund, discovered that pre-treating the bagasse by warming it and adding a dilute alkaline solution breaks down the fibrous structure of the biomass making it easier to handle and for chemicals to interact with