Evaluación Cienciométrica y factibilidad económica de la producción de biobutanol mediante fermentación abe a partir de melaza panelera

Abstract

In recent decades, the world has been facing environmental and economic problems, such as global climate change caused, in part, by the excessive use of non-renewable fossil fuels (i.e., coal, oil and natural gas). For this reason, it has become necessary to study and develop alternative energy sources that help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Biobutanol is now considered a new generation fuel, given its great advantages over other biofuels; one of them is the high presence of oxygen making its combustion cleaner and more environmentally friendly. In this project, a scientometric analysis was carried out to identify trends in the production of biobutanol through ABE fermentation under a technical and economic approach to the process, using the Scopus reference database (Elsevier, B.V., 2022) during the period 2012-2022. Scientometric indicators and relational matrices obtained using the VantagePoint text mining program (academic version 15.0, Search Technology) allowed us to define some of the most important variables of the process, such as: substrate-microorganism ratio, ABE fermentation methods and quantify the yields in biobutanol recovery processes.