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LIRMEX, turning invasive plants in fuels and fertilizers
Specialists from the Department of Biotechnology of the Iztapalapa Unit of the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) designed a biorefinery for the sustainable management of water lilies in the Xochimilco canals in the south of Mexico City.
The installation can be adapted to different topographies, replicated, and scaled in other sites, according to parameters of environmentally friendly technology, social justice, and economic viability.
Dr. Ernesto Favela Torres –responsible for the project– has been working for over 40 years in research to use the plant as an absorbent for water purification in rivers and canals.
The purpose is to create biotechnologies to amortize the costs of subtraction and handling, tasks that, depending on the body of water, reach up to 600,000 MXN per hectare.
As part of a first phase, they managed to develop bioprocesses for the production of bioethanol, enzymes, compost, biogas and prebiotics, the latter with a patent involved, he stressed.
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