“Waste to energy”: beneficiamento de efluente industrial para a produção de biogás em uma indústria de bebidas

Abstract

The topic “Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance” (ESG) began to occupy the agenda of company boards and directors as a way of integrating environmental, social and governance factors in the capital market. Corporate decarbonization agendas and climate concerns guide the industrial sector towards a sustainable business model and the search for alternative energy use is part of this journey. Therefore, the present work addresses the main operational characteristics of anaerobic digestion, interferences in production processes and opportunities for treating liquid effluents from a beverage industry located in Rio de Janeiro and its business model, a reference in sustainability. Technical data provided by the company itself in 2022 was analyzed. From the results obtained, the feasibility of energy reuse through biogas in the industrial sector is observed as an economically profitable and technically viable process. In this way, the search for innovation in the corporate environment must go beyond the limits of the core activity and permeate the sustainability areas of the business, aiming to achieve the objectives of sustainable development.