Hidrólise ácida do albedo de laranja lima

Abstract

With the State of Alagoas as the third largest citrus producer in the Northeast region of Brazil, specifically cultivating Laranja Lima, being of fundamental importance the study of the hydrolyzate of Laranja Lima albedo for the planning of bioethanol production. The characterization of the Lima Orange albedo from the Cooplal juice industry of the municipality of Santana do Mundaú was carried out at the Bioflex 01 Industrial Laboratory of GRANBIO. For the hydrolysis process of the biomass were used the acids: hydrochloric, nitric, phosphoric and sulfuric with concentrations of 0.5 and 1.0% and periods of 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes. The experimental design was completely randomized in the 4 x 2 x 4 factorial scheme, with three replications. Comparisons of the acid type averages within the concentrations and within the evaluation periods were done through the Tukey test at 5% probability. The hydrolysis with sulfuric acid obtained the best results for all variables studied. It is concluded that the hydrolysis process makes fermentable sugars of cellulose and hemicellulose available for the fermentation process.