Fermentation of Sugar Cane Molasses

An internet search of "fermentation of sugarcane molasses ethanol" produced a number of promising papers.

Is this homework or a new business startup perhaps? Thesis paper? Come on, be honest with us.

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Too much heat will kill the fermentation process.

With much research and work, one might be able to invent a superior process.

If you have specific questions, someone here may help you.

I expect that very few here will do the research for you.

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Won't the moles object?

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http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2010/419586/

http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/8/1/1

Thanks for the link.That is great news.When the process becomes cheap enough,we should be able to convert our grass clippings into fuel to power the fuel cells in our cars.

Hey, if I can get my mowers and trimmers to run on alcohol instead of gasoline without ballooning the diaphragm in the carburetor, then OK, maybe in Lubbock I can get enough grass clippings to feed "the beast". Does have to denature the alcohol produced, or can a little 'shine be siphoned off for medicinal purposes?

One more point: Has any real progress been made on separation of alcohol and water by pervaporation using membranes? Energy overhead improvements? I cannot remember seeing anything recently, or can I? Why did I then ask?

Corn stover, wheat stubble, cotton stalks, maize (sorghum) stalks, switch grass, cuttings from grape vinyards, almond hulls, mesquite wood/stumps, all of that adds up to a staggering amount of available biomass each year. Ranchers in Texas have to remove mesquite from range where cattle are grazed as this consumes up to 3-4 times the water needed by native grasses. Mesquite was actually imported into Texas from Florida (where it grows into a substantial tree, but in dry West Texas it only tends to be up to ten feet tall, more like a thorny shrub. The roots are used for BBQ fire wood, or in places Abilene and south large branches about 4-6" thick are split and used for fire wood. There is a vast supply of this.

Some crop residues need to utilized as ground cover to reduce weed growth, generally contribute as composted material to soil gums that hold moisture, and assist in plant nutrient uptake, etc. To completely denude the field after a crop may not be best management practice in the long run.

http://www.chemengonline.com/pilot-plant-slated-fast-pyrolysis-process-converts-biomass-fuels/

Bioreactor process will have to compete with this new fast pyrolysis process, though.

You can move your business close to a brewery and use their "beer Yeast", a byproduct of their process. Saf instant yeast will be probably many times more expensive.

Does ethanol production needs a special license in your country?

There must be many ethanol brewers amongst our fathers.

Research conducted by a strain of the species Kluyveromyces marxianus, which was obtained by chemical mutagenesis and subsequent selection, and is capable of fermenting glucose from the hydrolysis of cellulose, developed good yields.
The process allows the hydrolysis and fermentation at 42 ° C, near the temperature optimum of the cellulolytic complex, obtaining good yields (near 70% of theory). The residence time is about 72 hours, representing a significant reduction over other technologies.
This technology is a batch process for the production of ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass, which includes pretreatment by steam explosion and saccharification of cellulose and simultaneous fermentation of glucose generated in the hydrolysis process.
This process can be converted into ethanol feedstocks containing predominantly cellulose such as forest and agricultural residues, paper pulp, lignocellulosic biomass crops and organic fraction of household waste.

"You're makin' Ethanol? Watch out for the Revenuers, and keep your still well hidden. I don' wan' know any more, and we nevah talked about this, hear?"

Apologies for the 'Appalachian' accent, but the facts remain: Ethanol production, in the US at least, and possibly in many other countries, it a tightly controlled and highly regulated industry. You might be able to make 'weak' Ethanol blends (10% by volume or weaker) without a license, but if you want to concentrate it beyond that, then there's lots of licensing, regulations, and taxes involved, if it's even legal to set up a distillery in that county. Even if you're making 'fuel Ethanol,' there's still lots of paperwork, inspections, regulations, and so on, to prove you're making it properly and blending in the right amount of 'denaturing agent' (poison) so it is unfit for human consumption. The taxes on 'fuel Ethanol' are generally less than 'drinking Ethanol,' so that's one thing in your favor if you're going that route.

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I think whitephone has the best answer.

Big enough.

My nickname is "Eclipse".

Thanks for the warning....you are welcome to come around and shade my workshop on sunny days.