{"id":512954,"date":"2024-06-12T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=512954"},"modified":"2024-06-12T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:46:56","slug":"another-vinasse-biomethane-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/another-vinasse-biomethane-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Another vinasse biomethane factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_512955\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-biometano-2023-12-site-1140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-512955 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-biometano-2023-12-site-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-biometano-2023-12-site-1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-biometano-2023-12-site-1140-250x127.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-biometano-2023-12-site-1140-700x356.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-biometano-2023-12-site-1140-120x61.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Usina S\u00e3o Martinho<\/span><\/a> S\u00e3o Martinho plan in Am\u00e9rico Brasiliense, S\u00e3o Paulo, where the new renewable gas production plant is set to be built<span class=\"media-credits\">Usina S\u00e3o Martinho<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The S\u00e3o Martinho sugar and ethanol plant in S\u00e3o Paulo has announced plans to invest R$240 million in building its first biomethane (CH<sub>4<\/sub>) factory. The renewable gas will be produced from vinasse, a byproduct of sugarcane processing, and used as fuel. Scheduled to begin operations at the end of 2025, the plant is expected to process 100% of the vinasse generated at its Am\u00e9rico Brasiliense unit and will produce some 15 million cubic meters of gas per harvest. In July 2018, Methanum Engenharia Ambiental and Adecoagro, two companies working in partnership with funding from the Brazilian Funding Authority for Studies and Projects (FINEP), began using vinasse to produce biomethane in Ivinhema, Mato Grosso do Sul, using it to heat water and fuel their vehicle fleets. Every liter of ethanol produced generates 10 to 14 liters of vinasse, which can increase soil acidity and contaminate waterways, and is usually only partly made use of as a fertilizer (<em>S\u00e3o Martinho Newsletter<\/em>, October 31; <em>FINEP Newsletter<\/em>, April 29, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S\u00e3o Martinho plant announces plans to invest in its first biomethane factory","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[207,227,200],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-512954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-bioenergy","tag-energy","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512963,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512954\/revisions\/512963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512954"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=512954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}