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- Title
Drying Mango (Mangifera indica L.) with Solar Energy as a Pretreatment for Bioethanol Production.
- Authors
Santis-Espinosa, L. Fernando; Perez-Sariñana, Bianca Yadira; Guerrero-Fajardo, Carlos A.; Saldaña-Trinidad, Sergio; Lopéz-Vidaña, Erick C.; Sebastian, P. J.
- Abstract
The drying kinetics of mango were examined as a first step of pretreatment for biofuels production. This method exploits the potential of the carbohydrate present in the raw material, where the concentration for fermentation was adjusted to 20 g/L of reducing sugars. Dehydration was carried out by natural convection using a solar dryer. The solar dryer employed was made of transparent acrylic, and it had an internal volume of 0.125 m³. The dehydration was performed through natural convection. The dehydration achieved 95.6% moisture removal in 28 h and reached maximum temperatures of 52 °C and 56 °C, corresponding to first and second phases, respectively. The minimum temperature reached was 21 °C. The rate of drying was evaluated during the first stage, between 0 to 4 hours, with radiation maxima of 991 and 1014 W/m² for that day. At the peak of radiation the drying rate was 0.060 g H2O/g dry mass/min.
- Subjects
MANGO; LUMBER drying; SOLAR energy; ETHANOL as fuel; CARBOHYDRATES; FERMENTATION; RAW materials
- Publication
BioResources, 2015, Vol 10, Issue 3, p6044
- ISSN
1930-2126
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15376/biores.10.3.6044-6054