Study of orange bagasse digestibility by chemical pretreatments
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2013-11
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The search for sustainable energy resources has to pass by the waste. Thereby it will be possible to solve
two great problems: the increasing necessity for energy and the waste discard. Inside this reality, the
lignocellulosic materials seem to be a good option to produce liquid biofuels. Specifically to Brazil, one of
the biggest orange juice producers, the orange bagasse might be a candidate. The first step to study the
potential of a new material to produce bioethanol is analysed its performance in the pretreatment. Hence
this is the objective of this work. It was studied, based on a 2³ factorial design, the mass loss of the orange
bagasse submitted to lime and alkaline hydrogen peroxide pretreatments. The two higher mass loss for
the calcium hydroxide were 72.03 % and 71.30 % achieved with 80 °C and 40 h, and for the alkaline
hydrogen peroxide the better results were 61.12 % and 60.00 % in 24 h and with 0.6 mm particle size.
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SILVA, Karoline A. et al. Study of orange bagasse digestibility by chemical pretreatments. Chemical Engineering Transactions, Budapeste, v. 35, p. 1045-1050, Nov. 2013.