Propuesta de un proceso Industrial de obtención de hilo a partir de fibra de Pseudo tallo de banano para una pyme ubicada en la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

Banana is Ecuador's main export product; it generates different sources of employment and contributes to the country's economic growth. Bananas are plants whose pseudo stem is cut once the fruit is harvested, generating billions of tons of waste per year, which is why it is important to use the pseudo stem as a source of raw material. The textile industry contributes to the country's development, being the second manufacturing sector that generates sources of employment. For this reason, it is proposed to design an industrial process where the fiber obtained from the banana pseudo stem can be used as raw material to obtain textile thread. The proposed methodology consists of three phases. In the first phase, information is obtained on the banana species (musas) present in Ecuador with their physical-chemical characteristics, and the fiber extraction processes. In the second phase, a market study, a technical and economic study are carried out and the sustainability of the project is analyzed. Finally, in the third phase, the production plant is designed and a simulation is carried out in the Flexsim software of the behavior of the textile thread production plant with current demand and future demand. The results describe the best process for fiber extraction, the characteristics of the fiber from the pseudo stem, the demand for yarn from the pseudo stem is determined, the yarn production process is described, obtaining the production costs and the initial investment, the sustainability of the project is analyzed, and it is observed whether the proposed design is capable of meeting future demand.