Citation

Tauro, P., Production of ethanol from agricultural by products. Proc. RRAI Symp; PAU, Ludhiana, pp. 199-210, 1980.

Abstract

The increase in the cost of crude petroleum from $3 in 1973 to $40/barrel in 1980 has generated much strain and confusion throughout the world. This has also brought and confusion throughout the world. This has also brought to an and the era of cheap petroleum energy and has demanded the development of alternate energy sources. One possible alternate is ethanol, which is safe, pollution free and can be produced by fermentation of renewable agricultural by-products.

Although ethanol can be produced from any fermentable carbohydrate material, cane and beat sugar molasses have been the major agricultural by-products which have been used in its production. The organism of choice till now for the fermentative production of ethanol has been Saccharomyces cerevisiae. There is much scope of improvement both in the process and the fermentation efficiency if at all the ethanol is to serve as an energy supplement. The technology developed in this laboratory permits the production of 7.5-8% ethanol in less than 12 h by a centrifugation process of in 20 h by a sedimentation process.

Country, State, District, etc.

India

Language

English

Material

rice straw, rice husk, jute sticks, cotton stalks, cotton lint, bagasse, wheat straw, bamboo

Use category

ethanol production