Viabilidad de la integración de una planta de gasificación de biomasa

Resumen

The present model for olive curtivation is based on the farmer picking the fruit, transport them to the mill to produce extra-virgin olive oil, burn or chip the pruning debris and send the olive pomace from the mill to the extractor to obtain olive pomace oil. A sustainable technological option is the model shown in this Ph.D. lt is based on gasification technology for energy valorisation of pruning debris and the use of heat generated for drying olive pomace. The gasification at small scale is able to introduce improvements from both, ecc;mom ic profits and sustainability within the olive oil sector. For that purpose it is necessary to modify the current management model of by-products, such as pruning debris and olive pomace, generated during the process of olive oil production, which nowadays means a cost for farmers in the removal, drying and transport , and transform it into a new model which allows to recovery the energy from the solid biomass through gasification technology and, at the same time, reduce pomace moisture to optimise its handling obtaining, , this way , an additional income by commercialising it to the pomace oil extractor sector. To be able to make this model be accepted and implemented by the olive oil sector , it has to be feasib le in economic terms , as its means carrying out new investments such as installing gasification system, storing-reservoirs, and pruning debris pre-treatments