Fermentação alcoólica do suco de caju (anacardium occidentale L.): influencia de condições operacionais

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Pinheiro, Álvaro Daniel Teles
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Engenharia química; Etanol; Suco de caju; Processos químicos
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/3680

Despite its big biodiversity, Brazil has a great variety of agriculturists and agroindustrials which its bioprocess has a lot of economic and social interest. Among all the ethanol produced all over the world, the ethanol produced in Brazil made of cane of sugar has great distinction. Its evolution on the last decade is remarkable reaching its maturity and consistency. Within all it is estimated that the ethanol produced with that material is not enough to be spread and supply worldwide. The object of this article is to evaluate the production of the ethanol made with cashew apple juice. In this stage, it was observed that it is not necessary to supplement the cashew apple juice to posterior fermentation because the juice already shows all the nutrients necessary for the growth of the microorganism. Later there was a study showing that the temperature in the production of ethanol evaluating its fermentation between 26 and 42°C. The best results of revenue (0,5 g.g-1), productivity (4,9 g.L-1.h-1), efficiency (92,8%) and the maximum production of ethanol (49,3 g.L-1), It was gained when the fermentation was conducted between 30 to 38°C. The models of Monod and Arrhenius were used to describe the dependence of the kinetic parameter with the temperature, showing the results to be satisfactory. The potential of the cashew apple juice being a source of sugar for the production of ethanol was evaluated by different sources of the genders Saccharomyces and Kluyveromyces. The results showed that the strains of Saccharomyces were higher when compared to the Kluyveromyces to the maximum production of ethanol. The strain that showed the best results for the kinetic parameter that was evaluated was Saccharomyces cerevisiae CCA008. At last, to determine the effect of the initial concentrate substratum in the production of ethanol, it was studied the range of 70, 90, 110, 130 and 170 g.L-1 of initial substratum. The one that showed the best results for the parameters studied was 90 g.L-1. The kinetic model that came closer to the ones experimented and could explain the process best was the model proposed by Ghose & Thyagi. In conclusion, with those results shows that the cashew apple juice used in the production of ethanol will bring great economic benefits because it is a product of low cost and economic as well as to the environment being a agroindustial product deriving from the production of the cashew nut.