Bioethanol production from sugarcane juice by yeast

dc.contributor.advisorKundu, B.S.
dc.contributor.authorGiri, Rupa
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-18T13:58:50Z
dc.date.available2016-11-18T13:58:50Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractEthanol is an important feed stock for industrial and potable purposes. However, recently the use of ethanol as fuel purpose is catching up faster world over. It is mostly produced by fermentation of molasses by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molasses has become expensive due to decontrol and is of poor quality. Sugarcane juice can be cheaper and readily available alternate substrate for ethanol production. Fourteen yeasts isolates from soil and sugarcane juice samples collected from various sources (local cane crushers, sugarcane fields and sugar mills), were picked up from YEPS medium plates following enrichment culture technique. In the initial screening the isolates RY-1 to RY-14 along with the reference strain showed high variability in alcohol production from sucrose and sugarcane juice. Ethanol production was more from sugarcane juice as compared to sucrose. The two isolates (RY-5 and RY-8) gave more ethanol (7.18 and 8.19%) from sugarcane juice compared to rest of isolates and were finally selected for subsequent studies along with reference strain (S. cerevisiae HAU-21). The pre-treatments of sugarcane juice (filtration, sterilization and concentration) prior to fermentation did not increase the alcohol production significantly except concentrated juice (9.10, 9.23 and 11.12% by RY-5, RY-8 and HAU-21). The ethanol production from filtered cane juice was slightly better than sterilized sugarcane juice by all the cultures tested. An inoculum size of 5% and 18h of yeast growth were optimum for ethanol production at which the concentration of ethanol was 7.99, 8.86 and 9.75% by RY-5, RY-8 and HAU-21 respectively. Yeast recycling upto two cycles gave increased ethanol concentration by all the cultures while there was a decline in ethanol production after third recycling. An incubation temperature of 25±2ºC, pH 5.0 and fermentation period of 24h were optimum for ethanol production by all the cultures. yeast extract (0.3%), peptone (0.5%) and urea (0.3%) were found best growth factors and nitrogen source for ethanol production from sugarcane juice by both of yeast isolates. A concentration of 0.2% MgSO4.7H2O, showed maximum ethanol production by yeast cultures compared to juice alone. Scaling up of cane juice fermentation upto 5 l. capacity produced 8.20, 9.64 and 11.51% ethanol by RY5, RY8 and HAU-21. Isolates RY-5 and RY-8 were identified as Saccharomyces sp on the basis of various morphological and biochemical characteristics.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/86310
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCCSHAUen_US
dc.subMicrobiology
dc.subjectFertilizers, Rice, Yields, Grain, Crops, Nitrogen, Planting, Soil analysis, Nutrients, Concentratesen_US
dc.these.typeM.Sc
dc.titleBioethanol production from sugarcane juice by yeasten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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