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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Microbiology × Author: Monika × End date: 2018 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of sugarcane bagasse for bioethanol production
    (CCSHAU, 2012) Monika; Goyal, Sneh
    With the ever increasing demand for energy and the fast depleting petroleum resources, the interest in alternative fuels, especially liquid transportation fuels, has been steadily increasing all over the world .The ethanol is a superior automotive fuel as its molecule contains oxygen which allows almost complete combustion of the fuel by the engine, resulting in fewer emissions. Since ethanol is produced from plants that harness the power of the sun, ethanol is also considered a renewable fuel. Current production of bioethanol in India relies on molasses, but there has been considerable debate about its sustainability and hence there is greater interest in second generation fuels utilizing cheaper lignocellulosic materials as a feedstock for ethanol production. Among lignocelluloses, sugarcane bagasse has immense potential as a renewable substrate. Sugarcane bagasse does not compete with food crops and is also less expensive than conventional agricultural feedstocks. Non milled sugarcane bagasse procured from sugarcane mill, Meham (Rohtak) contained 31.7% cellulose, 23.7%, hemicellulose and 22.8% lignin. Treatment with 5% NaOH for 1 hour was found to be best treatment in terms of change in composition of substrate and time of pretreatment. There was 75.9% decrease in lignin content whereas 28.0% increase was observed in cellulose. Maximum ethanol production (3.1%) was observed when simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of 5% alkali pretreated milled bagasse was carried out with Saccharomyces cerevisiae in buffered nutrient solution at substrate loading of 10% and enzyme loading 30FPU/g of the substrate.