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The organic agro-wastes and other wastes and by products from food industry, for bio-energy generation, are cheap materials, most of them, friendly to the environment, and renewable in the meaning of ability to replace partly or totally the fossil fuels. In this study was performed a series of pretreatment processes with corn Stover as an agricultural cultivation waste, transforming to its more easily digestible state, and then were properly applied techno-engineering conditions intending to convert their biomass content into bio-ethanol as an energy carrier, and other usable chemicals, as well. It was preliminarily characterized each of considered wastes, and then was carried out a series of laboratory scale tests, performing such treatment processes leading to energetic values profit (biogas test), and reaching to such chemicals as Ethanol, Xylitol, Polylactic Acids, etc. By applying simulation techniques using two computer software’s that operate with coherent values, performing the process economy evaluation, adapting proper prices and capacities of the equipment (Albania) production capacity. This process was realistically applicable, as it was shown through performed experimental ethanol production on a laboratory scale. Comparing the generated theoretical simulation results and their validity with experimental data, result the best data fit through process algorithmic modeling. Conclusions resulted were optimistic for the bio-ethanol production capacity, cost estimation, and optimal yield production.
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Malollari, I., Manaj, H., Molla, E. (2020). Agro-Food Waste’s Proper Engineering for Bio-energy Using Experimental and Simulation Techniques. In: Monteiro, J., et al. INCREaSE 2019. INCREaSE 2019. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30938-1_36
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