Cuantificación y aprovechamiento energético de residuos de la industria de bebidas alcohólicas en Cantabriacaso de estudio : destilación de ginebras

Abstract

The alcoholic beverage production industry is a subsector of the agri-food industry of the greatest importance due to its great production volume of items of a high added value, with important flows both of production elements (raw matters and energy) and wastes of different nature. In this studio the possibility of energetic valorization of these wastes in analyzed, applied to the territorial context of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria (Spain), mainly through anaerobic digestion systems due to their double utility as waste treatments and as a production system of an energy resource as the created biogas is, in compliance with the principles of circular economy. In addition the study is also focused on the wastes, both liquid and solid, of distilled gin production, given the recent importance of this beverage production as well as the absence of other studies about them in the scientific literature. This is a thesis made as a compilation of scientific papers, all of them published in high impact journals (Q1 y Q2) in their fields of knowledge.