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An Investigation on the Optimal Production of Biofuel through the Valuation of Food Waste

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S.Rameshkumar, M.Tamilselvan,E Harishvishnu, S.Pooia
» doi: 10.53555/ecb/2022.11.02.015

Abstract

When compared to dangerous fossil fuels, biofuel made from affordable organic material is a renewable, environmentally beneficial energy source. Fermentable sugar wort is produced when a substantial number of carbohydrates found in organic waste are hydrolyzed by acid. Through the process of acid hydrolysis, which involved varying the percentage of sulfuric acid used, organic waste gathered from diverse sources was transformed into fermentable sugar. Thus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae was used in the process of fermentation to transform the sugar wort into ethanol. The sample hydrolyzed with 10% sulfuric acid yielded a maximum of 42.3 ml of bio-ethanol. A minimum yield of 20.2 millilitres of bioethanol was produced by hydrolyzing the sample with 2% sulfuric acid. Food waste is a viable source for the manufacture of ethanol under ideal preprocess conditions, according to the amount of ethanol yield from the biomass.

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