Acompanhamento e monitoramento da etapa de fermentação alcoólica na indústria sucroalcooleira Companhia Alcoolquímica Nacional – Grupo JB

Abstract

The ESO was carried out at Companhia Alcoolquímica Nacional - Alcoolquímica of the JB Group, located at Engenho Cachoeirinha, s / n, in the Rural Zone, Vitória de Santo Antão - PE. Companhia Alcoolquímica Nacional is a large sugar and alcohol industry and is currently responsible for the production of alcohol, spirits, sugar, carbon dioxide and electricity, which has been operating in the Northeast and Southeast regions, with the intention of expanding to other regions and abroad . The stage was carried out in the industrial production, in the distillery area of the Plant, in the stage of alcoholic fermentation, from 03/12/2019 to 05/21/2019, totaling a workload of 300 hours. The work was composed of two stages, beginning with the knowledge of the whole chain of the production process of the final products of the company, then the study and determination of the kinetic parameters, besides the mathematical modeling and simulation able to describe the stage of alcoholic fermentation. From the collection of data to the analyzes carried out on the cited samples, the correct adjustments of the model were made, through the substrate, cell and product balance equations, as well as in the six kinetic models collected from the literature. Thus, it was possible to adjust a mathematical model capable of simulating the alcoholic fermentation process of the company, in terms of substrate concentration and final product, obtaining a mean margin of error between the stages of 38.32% and 4.76%, respectively. However, considering that some kinetic models used do not take into account the concentration of cells, except for one, it was not possible to predict the concentration of cells throughout the alcoholic fermentation process. Due to the high competitiveness in the market, the companies have been looking for new studies of the processes in search of continuous improvements and therefore better to know the process demanding greater productivity and means that provide the gain of offer of the product to be commercialized.