Projetos contemplados nesta chamada serão executados no 1º semestre de 2022; período de submissão tem início em 22 de novembro Com a retomada segura e gradual de atividades no campus do Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais (CNPEM), organização social supervisionada pelo Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações (MCTI), usuários já podem se programar…
Treinamento, que será oferecido gratuitamente e de modo remoto, introduzirá ferramentas e estratégias computacionais orientada a descoberta de novas enzimas; curso ocorre entre os dias 18 e 19 de novembro e vagas são limitadas Ferramentas ômicas têm sido amplamente empregadas em diversos segmentos da biologia moderna, dentre as quais destacam-se o estudo da diversidade e…
Virtual Sugarcane Biorefinery This LNBR/CNPEM’s tool consists in a platform that allows the evaluation of economic and environmental impacts of technological routes in the context of biorefineries from renewable raw materials, with main focus on sugarcane. Thus, it can be used to measure the stage of development of new technologies, as well as to identify…
The role of logistics in enabling the production of advanced biofuels A logistics study is based on the quantification and evaluation of options (modes, distances, etc.), transportation costs of produced, or potential produced inputs, and products to be generated in a given location, in order to find the most favorable combinations of production sites, transportation…
Characterization of Forest Biomass The main chemical components of forest biomass are cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, as well as ashes and extractives. The procedures for characterization of this type of biomass most used worldwide are TAPPI (Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry) and NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory). The flow chart below illustrates the…
Integrated Biochemical and Thermochemical Routes to Produce Advanced Biofuels The production of biofuels and other bioproducts from lignocellulosic materials – composed of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin – has traditionally been done through two distinct technological platforms. The first, based on biochemical processes, in which biomass fractions are converted into soluble sugars through pretreatment and enzymatic…
Biochemical Routes for Production of Advanced Biofuels Several technological routes for the production of biofuels from lignocellulosic materials are based on biochemical processes, i.e., conversion processes that use microorganisms or enzymes as catalysts. Enzymatic processes can be used for the fractionation and solubilization of lignocellulosic biomass, for example, in the enzymatic hydrolysis of the cellulose…
