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- Title
Ethanol production from waste materials.
- Authors
Iqbal, Muhammad Shahid; Ahmed, Muhammad Saad; Ogras, Tijen Talas; Chun Li; Arshad, Muhammad; Khan Khattak, Jabar Zaman; Asif, Javed Hayat; Ullah, Saleem; Bashir, Rizwan
- Abstract
Experiment was designed for ethanol production using corn and other organic waste material containing starch contents and cellulosic material while barely used for diastase and acidic digestion methods. The effect of temperature, yeast, barely diastase and various dilutions of acid (sulfuric acids) were investigated on ethanol production. The result showed that corn yielded high amount of ethanol (445ml) as compared to cellulosic material which produced 132ml of ethanol from one kg of weight. It was also noted that with the increase of barely and yeast amount in a proper manner can increase ethanol production from different starch sources. It was also noted that acid dilutions affected cellulose digestion where high yield of reducing sugar was noted at 0.75% of sulfuric acid dilution. It was concluded from the present experiment that economical sources of starch and various dilutions of acids should be tried on cellulose digestion for bio-fuel production to withstand in this energy crisis time.
- Subjects
ETHANOL; WASTE products; CORN; YEAST; TEMPERATURE
- Publication
Journal of Biochemical Technology, 2012, Vol 4, Issue 1, p285
- ISSN
0974-2328
- Publication type
Article