TY - JFULL AU - S谩nchez Acu帽a and Juan Camilo and Granados G贸mez and Mildred Magaly and Navarrete Rodr铆guez and Luisa Fernanda PY - 2016/11/ TI - Production of Bioethanol through Hydrolysis of Agro-Industrial Banana Crop Residues T2 - International Journal of Biotechnology and Bioengineering SP - 694 EP - 698 VL - 10 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10007577 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 118, 2016 N2 - Nowadays, the main biofuels source production as bioethanol is food crops. This means a high competition between foods and energy production. For this reason, it is necessary to take into account the use of new raw materials friendly to the environment. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the potential of the agro-industrial banana crop residues in the production of bioethanol. A factorial design of 24 was used, the design has variables such as pH, time and concentration of hydrolysis, another variable is the time of fermentation that is of 7 or 15 days. In the hydrolysis phase, the pH is acidic (H2SO4) or basic (NaOH), the time is 30 or 15 minutes and the concentration is 0.1 or 0.5 M. It was observed that basic media, low concentrations, fermentation, and higher pretreatment times produced better performance in terms of biofuel obtained. ER -