AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 10 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW-2013-10_3_12
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Development of Technology for Production of Second  Generation Biofuel Ethanol from Bagasse

Jagdish Singh1* Prashant Sharma1
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1 Department of Biotechnology, Mata Gujri College, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab – 147 002, India
AJWEP 2013, 10(3), 103–108; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW-2013-10_3_12
Submitted: 9 December 2012 | Accepted: 31 May 2013 | Published: 1 January 2013
© 2013 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Bagasse is abundantly available agricultural crop waste obtained from renewable source, so it was used  as raw material for ethanol production. Acid and heat pretreatment in combination with biological saccharificarion  was evaluated for conversion of bagasse cellulose and hemicelluloses to fermentable sugars. Maximum yield of  monomeric sugars (13.98 w/v) was achieved when acidic pretreatment in combination with heat was subsequently  followed by enzymatic saccharificarion. The maximum ethanol production from S. cerevisae cells (1.6 × 109 )  entrapped in sodium alginate beads of diameter 2.0-2.5 mm 14.0 g/L was achieved with ethanol productivity of  10 g L-1 h-1 and sugar utilization of 85% at dilution rate of 0.25 h-1 by feeding 60 g/L glucose concentration in  packed bed reactor at temperature 25°C and pH 5.5. This system for ethanol production was operationally stable  for 136 h (cycle of 68 h)

Keywords
Bagasse
saccharificarion
bioethanol producton
packed bed reactor
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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