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In this article, the geographical location and availability of the most important crop residues generated in Mexico over the last 10 years (2008—2017) were determined. This study estimates the gross number of residues for the four most important cultivars in Mexico named conventional residues (CRs) such as corn, wheat, sorghum, and barley, and estimates were also made for regionally important crops identified as nonconventional residues (NCRs) such as coffee, sugarcane, and beans. The total and sustainable energy potentials (TEP and SEP) for agricultural residues were calculated, in similar way the butanol and electricity production potentials were also calculated if these residues were processed under a nonconventional biorefinery scheme; the calculated availability of crop residues was 59,059,666 t/year, thus demonstrating that Mexico could have great potential for bioenergy production. The estimated TEP was 1,787,241,249 PJ/year, and the SEP was 78,724,689 PJ/year. The production of butanol and its production cost were calculated for the main crop residues; the butanol volume ranged from 7348 to 161,610 t/day, and the volume of crops of regional importance ranged from 6461.9 to 151,389 t/day. The minimum butanol production cost was 2000 t/day of feedstock. The surplus electricity was determined for all crop residues.
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E V-N and CE M-G thank the Universidad de Guanajuato for the support received during the execution of experimentation and analysis of results. E V-N especially thanks to B V-F, D N-S, and J D V-G, for their technical support during the collection of data and statistical analysis process. Partial financial support is acknowledged from the Energy Sustainable Fund 2014-05 (CONACYT-SENER), Mexican Bioenergy Innovation Centre, Bioalcohols Cluster (249564).
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Molina-Guerrero, C.E., Sanchez, A. & Vázquez-Núñez, E. Energy potential of agricultural residues generated in Mexico and their use for butanol and electricity production under a biorefinery configuration. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 28607–28622 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08430-y
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