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Sustainable management of peel waste in the small-scale orange juice industries: A Colombian case study

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Ingeniería Térmica y de Fluidoses
dc.affiliation.grupoinvUC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Ingeniería de Sistemas Energéticoses
dc.contributor.authorOrtiz, D.L.
dc.contributor.authorBatuecas Fernández, Esperanza
dc.contributor.authorOrrego, C.E.
dc.contributor.authorRodriguez, L. Joana
dc.contributor.authorCamelin, E.
dc.contributor.authorFino, Debora
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-24T12:30:41Z
dc.date.available2022-08-20T23:00:05Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-20
dc.description.abstractAppropriate waste management in emerging economies like Colombia should be an asset for the overall sustainability. In the Orange Peel Waste case, incineration and Anaerobic Digestion are challenging solutions for the orange juice agro-industrial sector for avoiding the landfill, which is the conventional practice. However, these alternatives should be assessed in order to determine their feasibility. This paper aims to understand if incineration and Anaerobic Digestion are potential alternatives to landfill form a techno-economic and environmentally perspective. To this aim, a comparative Life Cycle Assessment was carried out in four scenarios. In the first scenario coal and landfill are used as source of energy and landfill disposal in the actual orange juice process. In the second scenario, the peels are incinerated to avoid landfill and reduce the need for coal. The third scenario includes the valorization of the peels by means of Anaerobic Digestion which produces biogas for the plant energy requirements. In the fourth scenario, apart from the energy from biogas, the digestate becomes a fertilizer for use in the orange crops. The results revealed that scenario III and IV are environmentally friendly options compared to Scenario I, but they incur higher costs than Scenario II. Carbon footprint found that 1.55 kg of CO2 are saving when coal substitution is reduced from 0.493 kg in SI to 0.279 kg in SII. Therefore, Scenario II is more suitable for the Colombian socioeconomic reality since Scenario II is not only techno-environmentally achievable, but also economically feasible. The methodology used in this case study could be applied to other countries or small and medium scale technologies and could also be useful for the scientific community, enterprises and policy-makers.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors wish to acknowledge the financial support of the Fondo Regional de Tecnología Agropecuaria FONTAGRO [Contract:ATN/RF 16111RG, 2016] and of the Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, Doctorados Nacionales [Contract:727, 2015]. Also this article is the result of the work developed through the "Programa de investigación reconstrucción del tejido social en zonas de pos-conflicto en Colombia" [SIGP 57579] withthe research project "Competencias empresariales y de innovación para el desarrollo económico y la inclusión productiva de las regiones afectadas por el conflicto colombiano" [SIGP 58907]. Finally, the authors would like to express their appreciation to FLP Procesados Company for providing the data for the case study.en
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationOrtiz, D., Batuecas, E., Orrego, C., Rodríguez, L. J., Camelin, E. & Fino, D. (2020). Sustainable management of peel waste in the small-scale orange juice industries: A Colombian case study. Journal of Cleaner Production, 265, 121587.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121587
dc.identifier.issn0959-6526
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage1
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage11
dc.identifier.publicationtitleJournal of Cleaner Productionen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume265
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/34237
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000027402
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.rights© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.en
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaEnergías Renovableses
dc.subject.ecienciaIngeniería Industriales
dc.subject.ecienciaIngeniería Mecánicaes
dc.subject.otherAnaerobic digestionen
dc.subject.otherLife cycle assessment (LCA)en
dc.subject.otherOrange peel wasteen
dc.subject.otherWaste managementen
dc.subject.otherWaste to energyen
dc.titleSustainable management of peel waste in the small-scale orange juice industries: A Colombian case studyen
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