Análise da viabilidade econômica da produção de biocombustíveis a partir da proteína concentrada de soja (spc) na indústria de biodiesel

Abstract

Population growth, allied to human evolution throughout our existence have brought the necessity of development of technologies for food production as well as industrial crops, in a way of supplying daily needs of people. The continuous increase in the amount of people, and the demands for even more specific products indicated an increase in the generation of wastes, which act as environment pollutants. In this sense, it emerges the necessity for reversion or, at least, reduce related problems. The use of biofuels, as ethanol, represent a likely way to reduce this environmental impacts. Studies and researches related to the production of biofuels has considerably increased. Starting from that, this study aims to give a literature review with critical analysis regarding to the production of ethanol from different raw materials, and bringing up a special attention to soy molasses. The analysis is grounded in the costs for each kind of production, as well as in the profits, taking into account byproducts generated and the current industrial market index for the country. According to the analysis, the production of ethanol from alternatives raw materials has identified as a suitable and advantageous option, once the country has an active production of beans (e.g. soybean, corn, wheat). In addition, there is a huge production of first-generation ethanol from sugarcane.