The dry, fibrous residue remaining after the extraction of juice from the crushed stalks of sugar cane, used as a source of cellulose for some paper products.
[French, from Spanish bagazo, dregs, from Latin bāca, berry.]
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Food and Nutrition:
bagasse
The residues from sugar-cane milling, consisting of the crushed stalks from which the juice has been expressed; it consists of 50% cellulose, 25% hemicelluloses, and 25% lignin. It is used as a fuel, for cattle feed, and in the manufacture of paper and fibre board. The name is sometimes also applied to the residues of other plants, such as beet, which is sometimes incorporated into foods as a source of dietary fibre.
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bagasse
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Architecture:
bagasse
A by-product of sugar cane after the juice has been extracted; used as a fuel and also as the principal component in cellulose-cane acoustical tile.
Veterinary Dictionary:
bagasse
The fibrous residue of sugar cane after the extraction of the sugar juice. Used as a fibrous diluent for heavy grain and molasses diets.
Wikipedia:
bagasse
Bagasse (sometimes spelled bagass) is the biomass remaining after sugarcane stalks are crushed to extract their juice.
A sugar factory produces nearly 30% of bagasse out of its total crushing. Many research efforts have attempted to use bagasse as a renewable feedstock for power generation and for the production of bio-based materials.
Bagasse is often used as a primary fuel source for sugar mills; when burned in quantity, it produces sufficient heat energy to
supply all the needs of a typical sugar mill, with energy to spare. To this end, a secondary use for this waste product is in
cogeneration, the use of a fuel source to provide both heat energy, used in the mill, and
electricity, which is typically sold on to the consumer
The resulting CO2 emissions are equal to the amount of CO2 that the sugarcane plant used up from the atmosphere during its growing phase, which makes the process of cogeneration appear to be greenhouse gas-neutral. However when a full audit of energy used in production is done, 75% of the energy required to grow and move the sugar cane (including bagasse) is from liquid fuel (petroleum or hydrocarbon based), leading to a 25% net gain from photosynthesis.[citation needed]Ethanol produced from the sugar in sugarcane is a popular fuel in Brazil. The cellulose rich bagasse is now being tested for production of commercial quantities of cellulosic ethanol.
Bagasse is also used as a tree-free alternative for making paper. This process requires no bleaching, is more biodegradable, easier to recycle, and overall has less impact on the environment. As in sugar production, the sludge left over after removing the cellulose fibers, is used to power the paper-mills. Examples of commercial sites advertising such uses are http://www.fullcircleplanet.com/ and http://www.stalkmarket.net/ and http://www.tree-free.com and http://www.excellentpackaging.com/pages/1/index.htm
Bagasse is used to make insulated disposable food containers, replacing materials such as styrofoam, which are increasingly regarded as environmentally unacceptable (see styrofoam bans). http://www.apacbiopaperplastic.com is a commercial site discussing this use.
Agave bagasse is a similar material which consists of the tissue of the blue agave after extraction of the sap.
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Further reading
- The Potential of Bagasse-Based Cogeneration in the US, Kevin Ho, Columbia University, 2006.
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