TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC VIABILITY STUDY OF PECTIN PRODUCTION SIMULATION FROM ORANGE INDUSTRIAL PROCESSING WASTE
This study evaluates the technical and economic viability of a pectinproduction process from orange juice industry waste, using SuperPro Designer®software to simulate the production flowsheet. The model was fed with waste quantitydata generated from Greenpeople®. The simulation results indicate that the process istechnically viable, with a pectin yield of 12.05% using acid extraction with HNO3.However, the economic analysis revealed that the operating cost per kg of pectinexceeds the analyzed selling prices, indicating that economic viability depends on thesale of by-products, such as essential oil and animal feed.
Authors
- Filipe Matos Diniz
- Aurora Britto de Andrade (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3004-5301)
- Antônio Augusto Fidalgo Neto
- Ana Lúcia Barbosa de Souza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2343-4840)
- José Neuman de Souza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2980-8877)
- Bárbara Maia de Viveiros (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7646-8695)
- Fernando Luiz Pellegrini Pessoa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3667-3875)
- Ingrid Lessa Leal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9273-9878)
- Mônica Romero Santos Fernandes
- Ana Zélia Abreu Pires de Sousa
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5151/siintec2024-393157
- Primary Topic
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00