Different particle size study of castor deoiled cake for biofuel production with an environmental sustainability perspective.

ABSTRACT: Agro-industrial waste material such as non-edible deoiled Castor bean cake (CBC) is one of the most abundant sources for bioethanol demonstrating the feasibility of utilizing bioethanol as commercial biofuel. This is an alternative to mitigate fossil fuel dependence and carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere. The CBC was pretreated with the help of thionyl chloride at a temperature of 35 °C for residence time 25 min. Subsequently, CBC substrate obtained from pretreatment was subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis with T. viride concentration varying from 0.5 to 5 g L^-1 at 35 °C, pH 6 for 48 h. Under optimized conditions the process integrating pretreatment followed by enzymatic hydrolysis for 48 h at 35 °C with pH 7 resulted in 76 g L^-1 of reducing sugars from 100 g

SUBMITTER: Deshmukh M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9213708 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature