Obtención de biogasolina a partir del bioetanol producido de la cáscara y del fruto del maduro a través de la fermentación y transformación en un reactor de lecho empacado

Abstract

This project, describing the processes which were implemented for the experimental tests obtaining of ethanol from the peel and fruit of the plantain, going through the stages of treatment, fermentation and distillation, then proceeded to measure the different alcohol levels that were obtained from the ethanol samples to later select the samples of higher alcoholic strength to enter the packed bed reactor to determine what amount of ethanol is achieved oligomerize to obtain gasoline, it was possible to determine optimum conditions for temperature (T=340 ºC) and space velocity (WVHS=0.98 h-1), for the transformation, and oligomerization of ethanol to high-octane gasoline in the bed reactor fixed catalytic using zeolite HZSM-5 as a catalyst, in all these tests performed, the samples obtained from ethanol both from the husk as of the fruit was dehydrated to ethanol, only the ethanol sample of the mature fruit with 50 alcoholic degrees, with a space velocity of 0.98 h-1, the ethanol was oligomerized to gasoline, the yield obtained was approximately 14%. The characterization of the gasoline obtained was carried out by INEN (935: 2016) standard analysis for commercial gasoline, which it was possible to determine the octane number, which was 96.5, achieving a gasoline with a higher octane than the gasoline of a Super marketed gasoline in Ecuador.