Title
Study of the specific heat capacity of biomass from banana waste for application in the second-generation ethanol industry
Date Issued
01 July 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Váquiro H.A.
Lopes-Filho J.F.
Telis V.R.N.
Telis-Romero J.
Universidade Estadual Paulista
Publisher(s)
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Abstract
An accurate determination of the thermal properties of biomass is particularly important when studying biomaterials for the second-generation ethanol industry. This study presents the thermograms of aqueous solutions of banana flower stalks obtained using differential scanning calorimetry. The samples were prepared using a detailed procedure to obtain normalized specific heat values as a function of temperature, pH, and biomass concentration. The specific heat capacity data were fitted using empirical first-order equations with an algorithm for nonlinear regression, followed by a statistical analysis. All the models applied in modeling of the specific heat capacity showed statistically significant goodness of fit (Radj2 > 0.996) for all the parameters in the selected expressions. The results obtained in this research can provide information for the modeling, design, and control of the unit operations involved in the second-generation ethanol industry.
Start page
1221
End page
1228
Volume
34
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería del Petróleo, (combustibles, aceites), Energía, Combustibles Bioproductos (productos que se manufacturan usando biotecnología), biomateriales, bioplásticos, biocombustibles, materiales nuevos bioderivados, químicos finos bioredivados
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84937727517
Source
Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy
ISSN of the container
19447442
Sponsor(s)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.
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