Residues of lignocellulosic biomass from babassu coconut can generate interesting materials
for the chemical and food industries. Physical activation processes by cold pressing and slow
pyrolysis, as well as physical-chemical activation with zinc chloride (ZnCl2), were developed
to produce products such as bio-oil (30%) and biochar (31%), with good income. Charcoal
showed good results in terms of adsorption capacity (357 m² g–1 BET surface area) and bio-oil
in terms of the possibility of extracting chemical compounds (phenols with 45.81% and
aldehydes with 32.76%). In a study applied in another context, and included as a chapter, the
main production costs of the process were analyzed, and the results indicate that the proposed
process is economically viable and attractive with profits of $422,416.10. Finally, after
dialoguing with the coconut breakers and understanding their needs, the viability of
economically developing the contacted families was studied through the transfer of technology
for the extraction of oil, cake, biochar and bio-oil from the babassu coconut, demonstrating the
possibility of generating income based on the profitability achieved in this study.
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