Perspectives and opportunities for products from lignocellulosic materials after pre-treament of sugar cane bagasse

Products derived from different pre-treatments of bagasse from sugar cane alcohol production in the second generation, represent challenges for its use as "commodities" and / or specialized products for the development of other new or commercial products intended for food industry and / or drugs. Among the products characterized by GC-MS in recent studies, by acid  and heat treatments, on  laboratory  scale basis with sugar cane bagasse,  lignin derivatives as vanillin and other phenolic compounds as well as short chain organic acids (acetic, propionic, lactic, etc.) and fatty acids were observed and detected by this methodology , which have sales industry and markets in food chemistry and source of new materials.

Beyond any consideration of integration with production processes for second generation ethanol from lignocellulosic material of sugarcane, these observations requires a techno-economic analysis to identify opportunities for products derived from biomass agricultural, such as bagasse of sugarcane,  bearing in mind that 20% of the chemical market is estimated  based on bioproducts, with the creation of 160 million dollars according to market potential and projections of USDA . Laboratory tests and other considerations will be discussed in this paper.