| Autor: |
Uduak George AKPAN, Adamu Ali ALHAKIM, and Udeme Joshua Josiah IJAH, Adamu Ali ALHAKIM, Udeme Joshua Josiah IJAH |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2008 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Leonardo Electronic Journal of Practices and Technologies, Vol 7, Iss 13, Pp 1-11 (2008) |
| ISSN: |
1583-1078 |
| Popis: |
Production of ethanol fuel from organic and food waste has been carried out with the singular aim of converting the waste to useful material. To achieve this, the conversion of organic waste (Old newspapers) and food waste (maize) were respectively carried out via acid and microbial hydrolysis, which yielded 42% and 63% fermentable sugar wort. This was then converted into ethanol by fermentation process using Sacchromyces ceverisiae. 95% ethanol was obtained by fractional distillation of the fermentable wort and the total volume of ethanol produced from 2,500 grams of the organic and food wastes was 0.86 liters.Fermentation Kinetic parameters were evaluated. Considering the percentage fermentable sugar yield from the biomasses in study, it is more economical to produce ethanol from food waste (maize) than old organic waste (old newspaper). |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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