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Proceedings of the Third Internatiional Symposium
m on Renewable E
Energy and Sustaainability,
Temixco, Moreloos, México, Septeember 9-11, 20155
STUDY OF THE CON
NTENT OF SSUGARS IN P
PLANTS OF AGAVE, FO
OR PR
RODUCTION
N OF BIOETH
HANOL Villa‐ Ramírez M
M.S., Plascencia‐ Espinosa M
M.A., Trejo‐Estrrada S.R. Ceentro de Investigaación en Biotecno
ología Aplicada, In
nstituto Politécnico Nacional, Tepetitla, Tlaxcala, C
C.P. 90700, Mééxico. Correspond
ding autor: sugeyyrol@hotmail.com
m, sertre@hotmail.com. Agave atroviirens is a succculent plan
nt that grow
ws in semi‐aarid soils in ccentral M
Mexico, whicch is the mo
ost importaant region o
of biodiverssity for this genus. Th
his plant beelongs to the Agaveceeae family with w 166 sp
pecies; the Agave plants have been widely used by p
people as ssource of fo
ood, fiber, ffodder, m
medicine, texxtile, constrruction, and
d the produ
uction of alccoholic beveerages. During the m
manufacturing processses of agavve beveragees, the leavves are diiscarded an
nd only is considered
d the central portion of the plant or “p
pinapple off Agave”; th
his is the p
portion used
d to produce beveragges like pulque, tequ
uila, mezcal and more recently pulcatta. In th
his work waas used oholic production, reesidual materials of agave of beveerages obtained of alco
w
was measureed pineapples and leavves in the field for anallysis of estim
mation off initial bio
omass afterthat, weree analyzed the conteent of sugaars for diifferent meethods of h
hydrolysis w
with acid, aalkaline, and enzymatiic, and trreatment aalkaline‐enzzimatic, the measurees, obtained with tthis 4 trreatments, it was evaaluated for measure rreducing su
ugars was u
used 2 m
methods, reffractometerr for to meeasure ºBrixx, and specctrophotometer in w
where, we m
measured reeducing suggars with M
Miller metho
od, and of sspecify fo
orm, was measured diffferent sugaars how gluccose, xylosee and cellulo
ose, for HPLC method, this work we alloweed to know
w that hydro
olysis method can geenerate higher contentts of sugars hydrolysab
ble, and its later converrtion in biioethanol. Villa‐ Ramírez M
M.S., Plascencia‐‐ Espinosa M.A
A., Trejo‐Estradaa S.R. (2015) SStudy of the co
ontent of su
ugars in plants of agave, for p
production of b
bioethanol. Posster Session: Biofuels and alteernatives; Prroceedings of th
he Third Interna
ational Sympossium on Renew
wable Energy an
nd Sustainabilityy (Eds. E. Saantoyo, P.J. Sebastian, M. Lópeez de Haro), Tem
mixco, Morelos,, México, September 9‐11, 20115.