THE ORGANIC WASTE OF BANANA PEELS AS A RAW MATERIAL IN THE OBTAINING OF HYDROGEN

Greetings and welcome dear readers of this prestigious platform, the issue that concerns us in this installment is associated with the use of organic waste materials and their impact on energy production. Therefore, our writing is based on a scientific approach with environmental implications, so that we can use the waste generated by humanity and include it in a new industrial production system.

Based on the above, to support our publication, we will rely on a series of investigations that have been socialized from the spaces of the Institute of Biotechnology of the National University of Colombia (IBUN), where They seek different alternatives that allow the use of resources or waste generated in large cities or agricultural plantations.

Therefore, researchers have focused on detecting different bacteria that have the ability to break down organic matter and transform it into useful material for society, where they have been able to detect that the anaerobic bacteria of the type Clostridium sp are capable and useful in the form of substrates to produce hydrogen from the assimilation and decomposition of carbohydrates, sugars and cellulose found in the waste of banana peels, whose production generates an equivalent of more than 6 million tons of this waste worldwide.

Methodologically, the researchers follow a standardized route, since in the first instance, they subject the waste to previous chemical treatments with the purpose of releasing the sugars or carbohydrates contained in them and once this objective is achieved, it is subjected to a fermentation process in the presence of the bacteria. Clostridium sp and thus produce hydrogen act as fuel.

It is necessary to understand that microbiologically this type of bacteria are great positive parasitic and saprophytic bacilli that take the shape of a matchstick or drum, they are usually found alone and when they are flared usually form short chains presenting flagella between them, also despite being anaerobic some have low sensitivity to oxygen, so they usually develop at temperatures close to 37 ° C and are inactivated at low (acid) or high pH (basic). ).

Understanding the behavior of this type of bacteria, it is necessary to assume that they have the ability to form spores and decompose plant tissue, starting from the membranes formed by cellulose.

This process is considered to be a biotransformation of organic matter, which would allow the extraction of energetic products such as ethanol, hydrogen, butanol and the monomer 1,3-propanediol, which can be used as alternative fuels and oil substitutes.

Undoubtedly, we are in the presence of a great scientific advance that allows us to generate an alternative to the decarbonization of our environment, in order to obtain a new energy system with our environment in mind, in such a way, the biotechnological processes allow us to help reduce greenhouse gases, the use of petrochemical fuels, as well as the reduction of solid waste to our planet.

[1] Guevara y Col. Biorefinery from rejected banana: an integrated system for the co-production of ethanol, single cell protein, biogas and compost Artículo: Acceso Online

Grateful with the community @project.hope and with all the management team of the same one that they motivate us to continue working in a mutual and balanced growth.