Estudio de viabilidad para la creación de una planta de producción de bioetanol a partir de residuos lignocelulósicos provenientes de la palma africana (elaeis guineensis)

Abstract

Fossil fuels are one of the sources of energy that pollute the environment the most, but at the same time they are the most used today. Colombia is a country where its energy matrix depends mainly on these fuels, however, this is due to the lack of viable projects for its diversification; For this reason, there is a need to implement renewable energies such as those obtained from biomass, bioethanol is a result of this search where bagasse, a residue generated in the oil industries, is used and transformed into a more environmentally friendly fuel. environment, which in Colombia presents great feasibility due to the high potential for its production. This project's main objective is the feasibility study for the creation of a bioethanol plant in Colombia, where an optimal location for it was mainly sought, finding it in the department of Meta due to its high concentration of oil extracting plants, once found the location, the proper processes and equipment that would make up the plant were selected, through information survey and analysis methodologies, once the previous stage was completed, the environmental impacts that would be generated by the activities carried out in the plant were evaluated, this Through the grove methodology, where it was found that the most important impact is the one generated in the socioeconomic factor due to the increase in employment and economy generated by the project.