Recuperación de bioetanol de disoluciones acuosas para la obtención de biocombustibles mediante ciclos de adsorción- desorción

Abstract

The present work belongs to one of the research areas of the Catalysis and Separation Processes Group of the Chemical Engineering Department (Complutense University of Madrid). This research has been funded by the Fundamental Research Projects Program of the National R+D+i Plan through CTQ contract 2009-08838 PPQ. Energy is usually associated with growth and quality of life. The International Energy Agency in its latest International Energy Outlook 2016 forecasts an increase of aproximately 48% in global energy consumption by 2040 (Sieminsk A., 2016), which means a carbon dioxide emissions rise of approximately 34% (compared to 2016). Moreover, it shows that fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal) will remain as the main energy sources (78% of all). Although fossil fuels consumption will grow, renewable energy sources will experience the highest annual growth (2.6% per year), due to the current environmental policies that aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Nevertheless, this increase will be insufficient to achieve the proposed emission reduction targets. After the Paris Agreement reached at the 21st International Conference on Climate Change (COP21, December 2015), the signatory countries committed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2100. The agreement established an maximum increase of 2 °C on Earth’s temperature, taking as reference the preindustrial era (intending in the future to lower the limit to 1.5 °C)...