Open AccessBiodigestion: Alternative use of vegetable matter for obtaining biofuel in the province of Ocaña, Colombia
Author(s) -
D M Valdés Solano,
José Manuel Alba Maldonado,
Alexander Armesto Arenas
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1257/1/012021
Subject(s) - biofuel , raw material , biomass (ecology) , production (economics) , agricultural economics , agriculture , straw , anaerobic digestion , lignocellulosic biomass , agricultural science , business , pulp and paper industry , environmental science , agroforestry , waste management , agronomy , engineering , economics , geography , ecology , biology , macroeconomics , archaeology , methane
The Catatumbo region offers a great variety of agricultural products on demand in the urban centers of the department of North Santander. Since in this locality there is no management or use for vegetable material wastes this study focused on the public market, represented by a wholesale and retail trade in agricultural products, the most representative being tomatoes and onions. This research prospects the potential for biodigesters as an alternative, based on anaerobic digestion for the production of bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass from vegetable species of the Catatumbo region. An assessment of possible raw materials that exist within the region was carried out, determining operating conditions and estimative production of bioethanol.