Isolante térmico produzido a partir da cana-de- açúcar: um estudo bibliométrico

Abstract

The large world production of sugarcane generates a vast amount of bagasse solid discarded in sugar and alcohol industries from the production processes. Although much of the by-product generated in the industries is transformed into energy, about 30% is unusable due to humidity, which can be discarded incorrectly in the environment. The reuse of sugarcane bagasse for the production of a thermal insulator is considered a sustainable use for this co-product and the production of an ecologically beneficial material. It is research is characterized as exploratory-descriptive of a qualitative-quantitative nature, whose adopted methodology was the bibliometric research quantitatively relating documents referring to the production of thermal insulation from sugarcane bagasse sugar, highlighting the most relevant scientific contributions, the networks of cooperation between authors, institutions and countries relating the results in a qualitative. A total of 18 documents were obtained from the main collection of the Web of Science in the period 2010-2021. The VOSviewer software was used to representation in maps of the information obtained. Although Brazil is the largest producer of sugarcane in the world (33% of world cultivation), Malaysia was the country with the greatest scientific production on the subject, and considering the impact factor of the journals, Singapore obtained more promising results, highlighting the authors and who had the greatest contribution in the area and those who had the highest h-index. The data obtained are an outline of works already published and show a growing annual production on the subject.