Abstract
Xylitol is 5-carbon alcohol, which has multiple applications in industry, mainly pharmaceutical and food. Because of this, the demand for xylitol is currently on the rise. Research on the raw materials that can be processed to obtain this product has been based mainly on the stand-alone process. However, integrating this process into the design of biorefineries could be a sustainable alternative from the techno-economic perspective. This chapter aims to analyze xylitol production from its stand-alone process and compare it in technical and economic terms with integration in biorefineries. For this, initially, three potential raw materials and their viability will be analyzed to obtain the C5 sugar platform so that the best economic alternative is taken to the production of xylitol in both scenarios. The integrated process in biorefineries enables the integral use of the raw material from the other components present in it and reduces costs without sacrificing yields. Therefore, it is concluded that this new processing alternative can technologically complement xylitol, which creates a new world of possibilities that is worth analyzing from the pillars of sustainability.
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The authors express their gratitude for the financial support given by the program: PROGRAMA DE INVESTIGACIÓN RECONSTRUCCIÓN DEL TEJIDO SOCIAL EN ZONAS DE POS-CONFLICTO EN COLOMBIA SIGP Code: 57579 within the research project “COMPETENCIAS EMPRESARIALES Y DE INNOVACIÓN PARA EL DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO Y LA INCLUSIÓN PRODUCTIVA DE LAS REGIONES AFECTADAS POR EL CONFLICTO COLOMBIANO” SIGP Code: 58907. Funded within the framework of Colombia Científica, Contract No FP44842-213-2018. Besides, the authors express their gratitude to Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Manizales, with the project entitle “ANÁLISIS Y COMPARACIÓN DE RUTAS DE TRANSFORMACIÓN PARA EL APROVECHAMIENTO DE SOSTENIBLE DE MATERIAS PRIMAS LIGNOCELULÓSICAS” Hermes code: 53071.
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Piedrahita-Rodríguez, S., Cardona Alzate, C.A. (2022). Techno-Economic Analysis of Xylitol Production in Stand-Alone and Integrated Biorefineries. In: de Almeida Felipe, M.d.G., Chandel, A.K. (eds) Current Advances in Biotechnological Production of Xylitol. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04942-2_8
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