The cultivation of sweet sorghum （sorghum bicolor） is still one of the new promising energy crops for bioethanol production nowadays. An opinion poll for the establishment of a bioethanol plant utilizing local resou...The cultivation of sweet sorghum （sorghum bicolor） is still one of the new promising energy crops for bioethanol production nowadays. An opinion poll for the establishment of a bioethanol plant utilizing local resources such as the cultivation of sweet sorghum and the zeolite deposits was held. Data were collected by heads of selected households of the Municipality of Trigono （Evros, Greece）. The simple random sampling was applied and a face-to-face interviewing and filling in of the forms of a questionnaire was conducted. It was estimated that some 44,778-55,971 acres of land should be cultivated with sweet sorghum for a satisfactory production of bioethanol in a bioethanol plant in the order of 120,000-150,000 tons/year. Furthermore, in this paper an optimum solution was estimated by using of the Fuzzy Logic Toolbox of Matlab （Intelligent system） which is formulated as follows ＂the bioethanol plant absorbing the sweet sorghum＇s production of a cultivating area of 46,600 acres and operating 12 hours/day would produce 125,000 tons of bioethanol annually＂. Such a vast area of land would offer occupation to a significant number of young farmers for the cultivation of sweet sorghum.展开更多
文摘The cultivation of sweet sorghum （sorghum bicolor） is still one of the new promising energy crops for bioethanol production nowadays. An opinion poll for the establishment of a bioethanol plant utilizing local resources such as the cultivation of sweet sorghum and the zeolite deposits was held. Data were collected by heads of selected households of the Municipality of Trigono （Evros, Greece）. The simple random sampling was applied and a face-to-face interviewing and filling in of the forms of a questionnaire was conducted. It was estimated that some 44,778-55,971 acres of land should be cultivated with sweet sorghum for a satisfactory production of bioethanol in a bioethanol plant in the order of 120,000-150,000 tons/year. Furthermore, in this paper an optimum solution was estimated by using of the Fuzzy Logic Toolbox of Matlab （Intelligent system） which is formulated as follows ＂the bioethanol plant absorbing the sweet sorghum＇s production of a cultivating area of 46,600 acres and operating 12 hours/day would produce 125,000 tons of bioethanol annually＂. Such a vast area of land would offer occupation to a significant number of young farmers for the cultivation of sweet sorghum.
