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Elaboration of ruminant supplements with byproducts and residues of bio-ethanol produced on farm settings

Published: August 14, 2009
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To establish, validate and evaluate the technical and economic efficiency of a decentralized approach for production of hydrated and anhydrous ethanol (95% and 96% concentration, respectively) a low-cost, small-scale processing plant was built, with a processing capacity of approximately 1,000 liters/day. The plant is easy-to-manage and operate with different feedstock crops (cassava, sweet potat...
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Harold Ospina Patino
Universidad Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul UFRGS
Carlos A. Mallmann
LAMIC - LABORATORY OF MYCOTOXICOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
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Hafiz Wasi Muhammad Khan
19 de agosto de 2009
It is a good article for the countries energy crisis showing another alternate source of energy
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Philippe Gossart
26 de agosto de 2009
by product means various & indeterminate ingredient. Trans esterification reaction produces by product...interesting in animal nutrition...but also ...Methanol ! In Dairy Cow the Glycerol (with Methanol) use increases the ketone bodies...that is to say the opposite effect of the usual food or feed grade Glycerol (without Methanol). Sometimes an economic solution has proved to be costly...
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