Abstract

PRODUCTION OF BIOETHANOL FROM LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS (LCB) USING S. CEREVISIAE

Ekta Chandel*, Garima Verma and Sneha Singh

ABSTRACT

Neem leaves, sugarcane bagasse and banana peel are the most abundant agriculture waste in the world. It is an attractive feed stock for bioethanol production as it is not used for feeding and their use for bioethanol production will not result food crises. The production of bioethanol from these is a complex process which involves pretreatment, sacharification (for sugarcane bagasse) followed by fermentation. We had used alkaline pretreatment using 1 N Na OH followed by sacharificationand fermentation using baker’s yeast that is Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The result showed that there were 1.3590 ml/ 100ml, 1.3057 ml/ 100ml & 1.3771 ml/ 100ml bioethanol production from 10gm of Neem leaves, Bagasse & Banana peels respectively.

Keywords: Bioethanol production, Neem Leaves, Sugarcane Bagasse, Banana Peels, Sachharomyces cerevisiae.