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The “ pulp “, residue of industrial processing of citrus fruits, becomes a valuable resource to be reused to generate electricity. At the time, to dispose of 340 thousand tons of waste, companies are forced to spend something like 10 million Euros a year, since the processing residues should be treated as waste. To fund the pilot project called “Energy from Citrus”, which involves the ‘ University of Catania , Region of Sicily citrus and the cooperative Empedocles , is the colossus Coca Cola .

With a plant can illuminate 333 homes – In an innovative pilot plant, built by District Citrus Sicily, the researchers were able to develop a system of conversion that allows you to transform the pulp into a particular biogas, usable to feed the most common domestic energy systems due to an additional conversion process that allows you to generate about 1 megawatt starting 500 cubic meters of biogas, going so far to illuminate 333 private homes.

Transform a costly waste into valuable resource – According to the calculations of the experts would be sufficient to transform these 20 plants specific food waste into valuable economic resource. The experimental plant built in Catania could be modified to be so capable of transforming other types of food waste.

April 13, 2015

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