Diesel de cana-de-açúcar: uma nova proposta energética

Abstract

Brazil has a territory with the capacity to be the expansion of sugarcane agriculture, besides being the country that produces sugar cane. The aim of this study was historical survey on diesel sugarcane, focused on environmental issues, social and energy. The methodology adopted was the exploratory and explanatory research. The Biofene fuels, Ultra Clean and Soladiesel their respective companies Amyris, LS9 and Solazyme shown that have the potential mitigation of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. All these fuels fit into the norms of national and international use. But the Diesel Amyris did not fit the rules of PROCONVE and EURO V. The Diesel LS9 proved to be framed in the rules and Diesel had no Solazyme evaluation, not enough data exist in the literature. It was observed that the Amyris Biofene, has a superiority over the production per hectare and the autonomy that gives vehicles to soy biodiesel. Diesel one hectare of sugarcane production has between 800% and 1114% higher than soybean biodiesel, depending on the production technology. As for autonomy varies from 800% to 1121% higher than the Biodiesel. What will define whether Brazil will invest or not these partnerships will be their political interests, because it is a commodity, therefore all environmental, social, energy and also politicians should be analyzed for this decisionmaking.