Fuel ethanol production from papaya waste using immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Liquid biofuels such as bioethanol is gaining much interest as it can be produced from various biomass feedstocks. Papaya peels, one of the major agricultural waste in Malaysia has immense potential to be used as a promising bioethanol feedstock. Thus, the main objective of this research is to optim...

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Main Authors: Rahmath Abdulla, Eryati Derman, Priya Tharsini Ravintaran, Siti Azmah Jambo
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Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/21881/1/Fuel%20ethanol%20production%20from%20papaya%20waste%20using%20immobilized%20saccharomyces%20cerevisiae.pdf
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author Rahmath Abdulla
Eryati Derman
Priya Tharsini Ravintaran
Siti Azmah Jambo
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Eryati Derman
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Siti Azmah Jambo
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description Liquid biofuels such as bioethanol is gaining much interest as it can be produced from various biomass feedstocks. Papaya peels, one of the major agricultural waste in Malaysia has immense potential to be used as a promising bioethanol feedstock. Thus, the main objective of this research is to optimize the production of bioethanol from Carica papaya peels using immobilized yeast cells. At first, the papaya skin was dried and powdered prior to hydrolysis at 120°C for 15 minutes using 0.2 M H 2 SO 4 . Then Saccharomyces cerevisiae Type II strain was immobilized using 12% polyvinyl alcohol and 1% sodium alginate using entrapment technique. These immobilized beads were later employed for the production of bioethanol from dried papaya peels. Most significant parameters such as temperature, agitation speed, pH and fermentation time were optimized by employing batch fermentation and bioethanol produced was quantified using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. A bioethanol yield of 0.514 g/L was obtained from papaya peels at the optimized conditions of 30°C, 200 rpm, pH 5 and 48 h of fermentation. In short, since the sugars can be easily released from papaya skin, this can be considered as a potential feedstock for bioethanol.
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spelling ums.eprints-218812019-05-06T07:02:34Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/21881/ Fuel ethanol production from papaya waste using immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rahmath Abdulla Eryati Derman Priya Tharsini Ravintaran Siti Azmah Jambo HD Industries. Land use. Labor QD Chemistry QK Botany Liquid biofuels such as bioethanol is gaining much interest as it can be produced from various biomass feedstocks. Papaya peels, one of the major agricultural waste in Malaysia has immense potential to be used as a promising bioethanol feedstock. Thus, the main objective of this research is to optimize the production of bioethanol from Carica papaya peels using immobilized yeast cells. At first, the papaya skin was dried and powdered prior to hydrolysis at 120°C for 15 minutes using 0.2 M H 2 SO 4 . Then Saccharomyces cerevisiae Type II strain was immobilized using 12% polyvinyl alcohol and 1% sodium alginate using entrapment technique. These immobilized beads were later employed for the production of bioethanol from dried papaya peels. Most significant parameters such as temperature, agitation speed, pH and fermentation time were optimized by employing batch fermentation and bioethanol produced was quantified using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. A bioethanol yield of 0.514 g/L was obtained from papaya peels at the optimized conditions of 30°C, 200 rpm, pH 5 and 48 h of fermentation. In short, since the sugars can be easily released from papaya skin, this can be considered as a potential feedstock for bioethanol. ASM Science Journal 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/21881/1/Fuel%20ethanol%20production%20from%20papaya%20waste%20using%20immobilized%20saccharomyces%20cerevisiae.pdf Rahmath Abdulla and Eryati Derman and Priya Tharsini Ravintaran and Siti Azmah Jambo (2018) Fuel ethanol production from papaya waste using immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Akademi Sains Malaysia, 11 (2). pp. 112-123. ISSN 1823−6782
spellingShingle HD Industries. Land use. Labor
QD Chemistry
QK Botany
Rahmath Abdulla
Eryati Derman
Priya Tharsini Ravintaran
Siti Azmah Jambo
Fuel ethanol production from papaya waste using immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae
title Fuel ethanol production from papaya waste using immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae
title_full Fuel ethanol production from papaya waste using immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae
title_fullStr Fuel ethanol production from papaya waste using immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae
title_full_unstemmed Fuel ethanol production from papaya waste using immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae
title_short Fuel ethanol production from papaya waste using immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae
title_sort fuel ethanol production from papaya waste using immobilized saccharomyces cerevisiae
topic HD Industries. Land use. Labor
QD Chemistry
QK Botany
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/21881/1/Fuel%20ethanol%20production%20from%20papaya%20waste%20using%20immobilized%20saccharomyces%20cerevisiae.pdf
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