Performance Evaluation of Sweet Sorghum Juice and Sugarcane Molasses for Ethanol Production

• Authors: Mohammad Sadegh Hatamipour , Abbas Almodares , Mohsen Ahi , Mohammad Ali Gorji , Qazaleh Jahanshah
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Sweet sorghum juice and traditional ethanol substrate i.e. sugarcane molasses were used for ethanol production in this work. At the end of the fermentation process, the sweet sorghum juice yielded more ethanol with higher ethanol concentration compared to sugarcane molasses in all experiments. The sweet sorghum juice had higher cell viability at high ethanol concentrations and minimum sugar concentration at the end of the fermentation process. The ethanol concentration and yield were 8.9% w/v and 0.45 g/g for sweet sorghum in 80 h and 6.5% w/v and 0.37 g/g for sugarcane molasses in 60 h, respectively. The findings on the physical properties of sweet sorghum juice revealed that it has better physical properties compared to sugarcane molasses, resulting to enhanced performance of sweet sorghum juice for ethanol production

Keywords

EN

Sweet sorghum; bioethanol; sugarcane molasses; fermentation

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Chemical Technology
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 13-18

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2015

online

19 - 9 - 2015

Contributors

author

Mohammad Sadegh Hatamipour

• University of Isfahan, College of Engineering, Chemical Engineering Department, Isfahan, Iran

author

Abbas Almodares

• University of Isfahan, Department of Biology, College of Biology, Isfahan, Iran

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Mohsen Ahi

• Tarbiat Modares University, Biotechnology Group, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tehran, Iran

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Mohammad Ali Gorji

• University of Isfahan, Department of Biology, College of Biology, Isfahan, Iran

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Qazaleh Jahanshah

• University of Isfahan, Department of Biology, College of Biology, Isfahan, Iran

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/pjct-2015-0043