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Macauba: a promising tropical palm for the production of vegetable oil

Oilseeds and fats, crops and lipids, 2018
The growing global demand for vegetable oils for food and for replacing fossil fuels leads to increased oilseeds production. Almost 122 of the current 187 million tons of vegetable oils produced in the world correspond to palm and soybean oils.
Colombo Carlos Augusto, Chorfi Berton Luiz Henrique, Diaz Brenda Gabriela, Ferrari Roseli Aparecida   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bioconversion of waste of macauba as indication of use for input in animal feeds

Revista Acadêmica Ciência Animal
Acrocomia aculeata, belonging to the Arecaceae family, a palm tree known locally as macauba or bocaiuva, displays potential for obtaining vegetable oil with application in the production of biofuels, food and pharma-ceuticals.
Claudiomira Zardo Palacio Revello, Rafael Henrique de Tonissi e Buschinell de Goes, Marcelo Fossa da Paz, Jaime Humberto Palacio Revello, Isabelle Moreira Souza Ferreira, Rozanna Marques Muzzi   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Simulation of macauba palm cultivation: an energy-balance and greenhouse gas emissions analysis

Carbon Management, 2018
The expansion of the production and use of bioenergy is one of the most efficient mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Nevertheless, the environmental impact of the production processes for many raw materials remains unexplored.
Anderson Barbosa-Evaristo, Ignacio A. Fernández-Coppel, Adriana Corrêa-Guimarães, Jesús Martín-Gil, Leonardo Duarte-Pimentel, José A. Saraiva-Grossi, Luis M. Navas-Gracia, Pablo Martín-Ramos   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Elemental contents in exotic Brazilian tropical fruits evaluated by energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence Composição mineral determinado por fluorescência de raios-X dispersiva de energia de frutos exóticos tropicais brasileiros

Scientia Agricola, 2006
The exotic flavor of Brazilian tropical fruits led to increased consumption. Consumers awareness regarding balanced diets, makes necessary determining nutritional composition - vitamins and minerals of the fruits ordinarily consumed.
Alessandra Lopes de Oliveira, Eduardo de Almeida, Fernanda Bevilácqua Rodrigues da Silva, Virgílio Franco Nascimento Filho   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prediction of oil content in the mesocarp of fruit from the macauba palm using spectrometry1

Revista Ciência Agronômica
In the present work a model was developed for the prediction of the oil content of the mesocarp of fruit from the macauba palm, using visible and near infrared spectrometry. Reference values were determined the by Soxhlet method. The model was calibrated
Sofrimento Fenias Savanto Matsimbe, Sergio Yoshimitsui Motoike, Francisco Assis de Carvalho Pinto, Helio Garcia Leite, Gustavo Eduardo Marcatti   +4 more
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Potencial de uso de carvão ativado de endocarpo da macaúba como pós-tratamento de efluente em protótipo de ETE descentralizada para remoção de nutrientes e melhoria de parâmetros físico-químicos

Caderno Pedagógico
Os índices de tratamento de esgoto sanitário no Brasil ainda são preocupantes, especialmente em áreas rurais, onde esse cenário é mais desafiador. Com o intuito de desenvolver uma alternativa tecnológica para atendimento a comunidades rurais e isoladas ...
Joana Gabriely Ferreira, Carlos Eduardo Sousa Lima, M. R. Fontenelle, M. B. Braga, S. P. Fávaro, R. Gambetta   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Lentinula edodes lignocellulolases and lipases produced in Macaúba residue and use of the enzymatic extract in the degradation of textile dyes. [PDF]

3 Biotech, 2023
da Luz JMR, de Souza Lopes L, da Silva MCS, Vieira NA, Cardoso WS, Kasuya MCM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Macauba oil carried by polymeric micelles reduce migration and proliferation of triple-negative breast cancer cells

RSC Pharmaceutics
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) accounts for about 10-15% of all breast cancer cases, often affecting younger women and those with a BRCA1 mutation.
Davi Trombini Aleixo, Ana Gualberto, Ana Beatriz Caribé dos Santos Valle, L. da Silva, K. C. Ferreira, A. S. D. O. Lemos, R. Fabri, G. D. Tavares, M. D. S. Cazarim, J. Gameiro, F. Pittella   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Production of Biodegradable Polymeric Composites with the Addition of Waste. [PDF]

Materials (Basel), 2023
da Silva Fernandes FA, Serra JCV, de Oliveira Costa DDS, Martin CAG.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Production of Protein Concentrates from Macauba (Acrocomia aculeata and Acrocomia totai) Kernels by Sieve Fractionation. [PDF]

Foods, 2022
Toledo E Silva SH, Silva LB, Eisner P, Bader-Mittermaier S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source