Cuantificación del dióxido de carbono equivalente generado durante el beneficio del café en dos despulpadoras del Tercer Frente1

Abstract

In the productive chain of the coffee, later to the gathering of the grain, this it is subjected to a process of benefit, the same one brings get generation of carbon dioxide (CO₂), it is for it that the work had as objective to quantify the of carbon dioxide equivalent, generated during the benefit of the coffee in two pulping center of the Third Front. The emissions of carbon dioxide were calculated based on the benefit of one harvest of coffee in the pulping center Filé and the pulping center Matías. Interviews and documental revision to know the inputs used in the different activities of the benefit of the coffee were carried out. The questions carried out were directed to determine the consumption of: electric power, fossil fuels (diesel), plastic sacks for container of coffee and the use of the parchment of the coffee as fuel for the drying of the grain. With the obtained data the emissions were calculated for each one of the factors using the emission factor corresponding to each generating source of carbon dioxide. The obtained results demonstrated that the pulping center of Filé generates approximately in one harvest 204 756 kg of CO₂ eq and to allow leaves a Carbon Print of 0.21 kg of CO₂ eq/kg of processed coffee, the coffee benefit center of Matías emitted in one harvest 20 135.2 kg of CO₂ eq and it generates a Carbon Prints of 0.1 kg of CO₂ eq/ kg of processed coffee and the coffee benefit in the pulping center of Filé and Matías were generate one HC 0.20 kg of CO₂ eq/kg of coffee processed.