Process Design And Techno-Economic Analysis Of A Pineapple Wine Production Plant Under The Context Of The Choco-Colombia Region

Pineapple surplus in the region of Choco-Colombia, the selection process that involves its commercialization and being a rapidly perishable fruit, causes serious losses for farmers. Due to the high content of sugars, it is anticipated that discarded fruit juice can be used as a substrate for the development of bioprocesses to obtain value-added products on an industrial scale. A new model for a 1600 ton / year pineapple wine production plant has been developed with Aspen Plus (R) v10.0 (Aspentech, Cambridge, MA). It is observed that the cost of the raw material and the fixed manufacturing costs have the greatest impact on the operating cost with 29 and 28% respectively, the capital cost are estimated in US$ 15.52 million, on the other hand the plant generates 2210 tons of pineapple bagasse as solid waste and emits of 162.3 tons of CO2 per year.