Realizar el Diseño y Construcción de un Fermentador para producción de alcohol a partir de la remolacha.

Abstract

The present research consisted in the design, building, and implementation of an alcoholic fermentation equipment of wort beetroot inoculated with yeast, considering the process variables end the conditions of more optimal fermentation. For the calculations of the design was based on the ability of the fermenter, equal to 100 L, design parameter established inside the objectives of the investigation, subsequently operating conditions was determined to favor the fermentation, which were established in function according to the ideal conditions for the development of yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, microorganism inoculated to the wort for fermentation, subsequently it performed in laboratory scale fermentation process carried out by the computer to determine the proper formulation of the word. Based on the results previously obtained, calculations Engineering applies for equipment sizing and for it subsequent construction and implementation in the Process Laboratory, of the Faculty of Sciences. Finally the validation of the instrument was carried, obtaining a 12% yield, for which a process is performed within the fermenter and was compared with the results experimentally obtained, establishing that the operating conditions of the equipment were superior than those established experimentally.