Development of a tomato pomace biorefinery based on a CO2-supercritical extraction process for the production of a high value lycopene product, bioenergy and digestate
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2020
Citazione:
Development of a tomato pomace biorefinery based on a CO2-supercritical extraction process for the production of a high value lycopene product, bioenergy and digestate / B. Scaglia, P. D’Incecco, P. Squillace, M. Dell’Orto, P. De Nisi, L. Pellegrino, A. Botto, C. Cavicchi, F. Adani. - In: JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION. - ISSN 0959-6526. - 243(2020 Jan 10).
Abstract:
Tomato peels and seeds (TP) are the most abundant canning industry waste actually used to produce biogas. TP is rich in lycopene (lyc) and represent a more sustainable feedstock than tomato fruits actually employed. It was therefore chosen as feedstock together with supercritical CO2 extraction (SFE-CO2) technology to develop a TP-SFE-CO2 biorefinery, topic scarcely investigated. Two TP were tested and although TP-SFE-CO2 parameters were the same, lyc recoveries depended by peel structure changes occurred during pre -SFE-CO2 drying step. Higher moisture (102.7 g kg-1 wet weight) permitted 97 % lyc recovery and gave a water-in-oil emulsion as extract. Mass balance confirmed that lyc isomerisation did not cause lyc losses. After a significant oil extraction, exhaust TP showed a biodegradability 64% higher than the raw one, attributable to fibre structure disruption. The biorefinery proposed (SFE_CO2+anaerobic digestion) determined positive economic revenue (+787.9 € t-1 TP) on the contrary of the actual TP management.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Lycopene; Tomato pomace; Anaerobic digestion; Supercritical extraction; Biorefinery
Elenco autori:
B. Scaglia, P. D’Incecco, P. Squillace, M. Dell’Orto, P. De Nisi, L. Pellegrino, A. Botto, C. Cavicchi, F. Adani
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