Optimisation of Bioethanol Production in a Potato Processing Industry

Nowadays, there is a requirement for industries to eliminate carbon from their energy mix and substitute it with greener options. This calls investment in efforts facilitate the scaling up of technical advancements. Because huge amount waste, life cycle strategy has been used by industries, especially food industry, lessen environmental impact products. One sectors that burdens environment significant waste potato processing industrial sector. The current study focuses on valorisation all streams (potato peels, tubers slices, starch low-quality chips) towards bioethanol production at pilot level. After physico-chemical characterisations, several experimental trials were performed order determine optimum pretreatment hydrolysis conditions each stream. Acid hydrolysis, alkaline hydrothermal examined when no resulted low ethanol yields (below 60%). results obtained applied plant 200L examine upscaling factor. It was verified 1000 times generates comparable and, some cases, greater results. From integration mass balances typical company, full-scale implementation plan also set up, where calculated around 2 m3 per week could be produced.