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Agriculture / coffee production | | Spanish term or phrase: cisco | | Igualmente en el proceso de secado del café, Cenicafé ha desarrollado alternativas que apoyan la sostenibilidad ambiental del PCC. Después de que el caficultor beneficia el café, éste debe ser secado hasta que alcance un máximo de 12% de humedad, con el fin de garantizar un posterior almacenamiento seguro sin adquirir mal olor o sabor. Para ello se han desarrollado sistemas solares de secado (secador parabólico), con lo cual el caficultor evita el uso de combustibles fósiles. Finalmente, en el proceso de trilla del café pergamino se produce otro subproducto que es el cisco. Ese subproducto puede ser usado como combustible para el secado mecánico del café, en sustitución de combustibles como el ACPM, el carbón o el gas. |
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24 mins confidence: coffee husks
Explanation:
Coffee husk is one of the most commonly available agricultural residues in the mountainous regions of Cuba that can be converted into different types of fuel and chemical feedstocks through a variety of thermochemical conversion processes. This study provides information on moisture content, bulk density, particle size, minimum fluidization velocity, and terminal velocity of this biomass, which has been used for the design of different technologies of thermolysis.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a713...
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According to Brando, "The farmer can make money using technology in his favor by doing as much processing as he can. For example, in addition to post-harvest processing (dry; semi-washed, or washed systems) and drying, the farmer can hull and separate his coffee. This ******not only produces fuel for the driers--the coffee husk--******but, most importantly, allows the farmer to approach the market with full knowledge of the features of his product."
http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/151664133_...
COOCAFÉ has made serious investments in environmental conservation programs on the cooperative farms and processing mills. One is the ten-fold reduction in the amount of water used in the processing to separate the bean from the cherry pulp. The 9 cooperatives have collectively invested $600,000 in these water treatment systems. They have reduced the overall usage of chemicals by half. The Montes de Oro cooperative boasts the only hi-tech solar dryer in Costa Rica. Coopeldos is certified organic, and Montes de Oro and Santa Elena are in the three year transition period towards organic. They have serious investments in reforestation programs (see below). They have reduced wood use in dryers, ****using the coffee husk instead to fuel the drying ovens. ****
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/coffee/coo...
Essent starts trials of **coffee husk** biomass
13 February, 2008
Dutch energy company Essent has begun testing **coffee husks** imported from Brazil as a fuel at its 1,200MW Amer power station.
The company said that in seven years’ time it could be using 250,000t/year of coffee husks, out of a current worldwide supply of 1m tonnes/year, including 150,000–200,000t/year in Brazil, said Essent.
http://www.bioenergy-business.com/index.cfm?section=lead&act...
| Lisa McCarthy
Spain
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2 hrs confidence: parchment skin
Explanation:
Sounds odd, I know... but I recently came across this term when I was translating a coffee website (from Italian, so the source term was different)
Coffee beans when dried and ready for milling are covered by their **parchment skin** and are referred to as "parchment coffee."
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/fb/coffee/coffee_processing.html
After the fermentation step the coffee is gently washed and then dried, either by the sun on open terraces, where the thin layer of beans is periodically raked by workers, or in large mechanical driers, or in a combination of the two. This leaves a last thin skin covering the bean, called the ***parchment skin***...
http://freakybean.com/coffee101_sub.php?subPage=Processing
If you search for "parchment skin", "coffee" and "processing" you will find more information.
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It seems the term "parchment" rather than "parchment skin" is used when referring to the substance as a biomass fuel:
From a company that manufactures coffee drying equipment:
Coffee parchment gasifier for continuous 24 hour operation
he solar technology avoids the prolonged drying intervals of five to fifteen days that are required to dry beans on cement or plastic patios, instead drying the beans in two days of solar operation, or in twenty four hours of continuous operation using coffee **parchment** as fuel during night operation.
http://www.mesoamerican.org/solutions_coffee_drying.htm
You can find many other examples by searching coffee + parchment + biomass
|  K Donnelly
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