Sugarcane baggase is the main waste produced in huge amount by sugar industries, sugar industries is still the largest among the food processing industries in the world. 1 tonnes of sugarcane produced 280kg of wet baggase, the fibrous matter remain after sugarcane are cruised to extract the juice. 54 million dry tonnes of baggase are generated per annum worldwide.

Sugarcane bagasse is abundantly agro-waste produced world-wide and has been used in different applications. Other application of sugarcane baggase is as animal feed, energy, pulp and paper. In the paper industry, the sugarcane baggase was converted into paper pulp.High growth rate of sugar cane plant lower energy and bleaching requirement make it a good material for paper industry. However some country is still using chlorine to bleach the baggase which is harmful for the environment.

Currently, I am doing a study to evaluate the potential and efficiency of sugarcane baggase as a renewable fuel. Sugarcane baggase has a huge potential in replacing fossil fuels and other non-renewable energy.   The reason that I started up this study is because I found a lot of stall in Malaysia which selling sugarcane juice usually throw their sugarcane baggase away after they extract the juice.  They don?t know where to dispose their waste.

Hence, I collected the sugarcane baggase from night market, dried it under sun, blend it and compressed it into fuel pellets. It is found that this kind of pellets burn more efficiently and burn cleaner if compared to fossil fuel as they release lesser carbon to the environment. This study will be continuing by expanding it to different type of biomass.