Coffee pulp is secret of beauty and youth

Coffee fruit seed is consumed, and is to develop the aromatic beverage. Its pulp, called mucilage, is wasted and is an agent very polluting.

Is a product that only has three hours of useful life, because from there starts the degradation and its negative effects on the environment.

The Colombian Andrés Ramirez Velez, industrial economist, winner of America innovators award in the category sustainability and ecology, has been able to industrialise what began as a dream.

His secret was to produce honey from the pulp of the coffee and flour from the shell.

In the search, they found that coffee is the fruit that contains more antioxidants, above the blueberries, grapes and tea.

To determine the functional value of antioxidants in the body, told Ramirez Velez, their business model was inclined to the human being, divided into two branches. A drink that expect to be a u000a"boom" in our world.

Is added nine minerals and all antioxidants and is a functional food that soothes the thirst and gives energy, said Ramirez Velez. At the same time meets healthy activities of the human body.

They replace all the normal sugar for honey from coffee, which is mostly fructose, which is easily assimilated by the body human.

Another production line have called her Coffee Care, with several products for the care of skin and hair, such as facial, mask and shampoo

With the implementation of its research descontaminan the environment and generate real healthy.

Process
Ramirez Velez explains that generally when consumed a fruit, the shell is removed, consumed the pulp and seed boot or sowing.

His research began with the idea of how take advantage of the waste of coffee, which reaches 60% of the product.

Pulp presents a u000avery rapid degradation to come into contact with the environment and happens to be a rich product and that is consumed, be one highly detrimental to aquatic species and to human beings. There is a chemical demand of oxygen very high to come into contact with the water and the environment.

With his decomposition, the mucilage methane, CO2 emits gas and leachate to stop in the groundwater and rivers.

Managed to demonstrate in the laboratory the mucilage could concentrate. Applied you a technology that would be efficient to do a production industrial.

They designed the logistics and industrial platform that would give the option to transform and move from three hours to at least six months, at a temperature environment.

Environment
to the project, said Ramirez Velez, they bring to humanity the decontamination of the environment.

Says, he added, that the benefit of a kilogram of coffee represents the u000acontamination of 5.6 persons.

"This is the relationship of our solid and liquid waste versus waste of coffee based on chemistry of oxygen, they are one hundred ten thousand parts per million that the benefit of kilo of coffee takes to the waters in oxygen", pointed out.

As exercise raised that if one takes into account Colombia, which produces the 9 per cent of the coffee in the world, its coffee production generates pollution of 5,600 million, just below 1,400 million of the population of the entire planet.

Brazil is the first product of coffee in the world, followed by Viet Nam and Indonesia.

Coffee has the highest amount of nutrients while higher is his plantation.

A cafe above 1,800 metres is considered the best rate.

Fuels
A request for some persons from United States started research, when the honey was devoted mostly to production u000abiofuel.

"They told us: gentlemen, if you have honeymoon, have sugar, can ferment and earmark;" "they have biofuel".

In a laboratory showed that from coffee honey can produce ethanol, with all the benefits for the environment and does not threaten food security, as it is the case for the use of corn to produce fuel.

Innovative
the award innovators of America was presented this year with the support of the Development Bank in Latin America and will be awarded every two years in countries of Latin America.

Gustavo Sorzano, Colombian, is the creator of the award.

Felipe Pagés, Dominican Republic, is the director of Innovamérica and Spanish, Patricia Yaniot, CNN news anchor is the CEO of innovators of America.

El LISTÍN DIARIO
was sponsor for Dominican Republic of innovators of America.

experience in u000aAGRICULTURAL
Colombian, industrial economist with experience in the agricultural sector, particularly in efficient pasture fertilization advice and use of inputs organic.

Advisor, evaluator and normalizer for the presentation of projects.

He formed the company with his partner Juan Carlos Jaramillo, who is an engineer of foods, with 15 years of experience in the industry.

He has participated in India and Panama representing Colombia.

Decrease of CO2 by plant coffee
innovation: comprehensive utilization of by-products from the benefit of the coffee
.
Processing and marketing of honey and flour from the by-products generated in the benefit of the coffee. These products are processed and marketed in human nutrition, cosmetics industry and livestock feed.

According to studies carried out, each plant coffee honey reduces 4,500 tonnes of CO2 emissions / year and 214 u000atons of CH4, thus protecting the environment.

This product is deposited in storage pits and that's where begins the degradation, pollution and the generation of gas methane
The business model began 16 years ago with the idea of building a plant in a small enclosure to give animals coffee instead of cane molasses.

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