José G. Mendoza

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

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Fernando Damián Barajas Godoy

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

José Guadalupe Rutiaga-Quiñones

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

Marco Antonio Martínez-Cinco

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

Otoniel Buenrostro-Delgado

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

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Universidad de Morelia

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Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias

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The significance of biowaste drying analysis as a key pre-treatment for transforming it into a sustainable biomass feedstock

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Fernando Damián Barajas Godoy Marco Antonio Martínez-Cinco José Guadalupe Rutiaga-Quiñones Otoniel Buenrostro-Delgado José G. Mendoza

The objective of this study is to investigate the drying kinetics of fruit and vegetable peel biowaste using a sustainable technique as a key-pretreatment for its conversion into useful feedstock. Biowaste represents a missed potential source of bioenergy and bioproducts, but moisture removal is required, and conventional drying methods are expensive since they require great quantity of energy supplied, almost always, by a non-renewable energy. In this study six batches with the same quantity of biowaste, and heterogeneous physical composition were dried under open-sun conditions. We evaluated the influence of the interaction between drying area and the initial moisture content on drying rate. Eight semi-theoretical models were fitted using Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to predict drying rate, and their accuracy was assessed through goodness-of-fit tests. Maximum moisture content to preserve biomass (10%) was reached on 5

10.7717/peerj.18248

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