Revisão bibliográfica sobre a viabilidade socioeconômica da implantação da cogeração de energia elétrica no setor sucroalcooleiro do Brasil

Abstract

This work addresses a study under literary review regarding the socioeconomic and environmental viability of the implementation of electric power cogeneration in the sugar and alcohol sector in Brazil. However, it addresses the current expansion of energy demand in the country, the crises in the energy sector and the challenges in expanding the supply of energy, focusing on alternative sources of thermoelectric energy by the sugar and alcohol sector in Brazil, in which it highlights the feasibility of implantation of cogeneration of electric energy by the same, having as main attraction the high surplus of raw material of this alternative, in the patios of the sugar and alcohol industries: the sugar cane bagasse. Sugarcane bagasse, which until recently was one of the residues that the mill had to dispose of, is today considered an important source to meet the energy needs of the mills themselves through cogeneration, which means also an additional source of revenue for the industry, when its excess electricity cogeneration is sold. Therefore, the viability and importance of cogeneration of electric energy through the burning of sugarcane bagasse in the plants will be discussed, in order to later conclude the socioeconomic viability of the cogeneration of electric energy in the sugar and alcohol industries from Brazil.