bagasse

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  1. noun 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.

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  • ClearFuels plans to build a 20 ton-per-day biomass gasifier designed to produce syngas from bagasse, virgin wood waste and other cellulosic feedstocks at Rentech's Product Demonstration Unit (PDU) in Colorado, which the Company believes is the only operating synthetic transportation fuels facility in the U.S. —  Automotive Headlines
  • From 2005 to 2007, ClearFuels co-funded additional testing of the gasification process for the conversion of bagasse into syngas. —  Automotive Headlines
  • Sugar plants generate electricity by burning bagasse - the principal waste product after the juice is extracted from the cane - to produce steam for the turbines that run the cane crushing mill. —  Reliable Plant Magazine
  • Some of these sources include cellulosic materials, such as a plant called energy cane, sweet sorghum, a grass called miscanthus and bagasse - the fibrous portion of a sugarcane stalk that remains after the juice is squeezed out. —  Delta Farm Press RSS Feed
  • There's also a 'woody' range which has less impressive eco-credentials but is all biodegradable, as is the 'pulp' range which are moulded fibre products made from bamboo stalks, straw and bagasse, which is a sugar cane by product. —  Life Goggles
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  1. French, from Spanish bagazo, dregs, from Latin bāca, berry.

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  1. = French bagasse, also bagace, from Spanish bagazo (= Portuguese bagaço), the refuse of sugarcane, grapes, olives, etc., which have been pressed, prob. a dial. variant of bagage, trash, lumber, baggage: see baggage and baggage.
 

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