Production of Bioethanol using Water Hyacinth, an Aquatic Weed, as a Substrate
Journal Title: Journal of Environmental and Social Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Water Hyacinth is a one of the aquatic plants which causes serious concern on aquatic environment. All efforts to control the growth and spread of this weed have failed and hence concept of “Eradication through utilization” is being attempted. The purpose of present work is to study the production of ethanol from water hyacinth, used as substrate, using isolated microbial strain. The cellulase enzyme producing microbial strains were isolated and the potent cellulase producer strain is used to digest water hyacinth biomass, for the production of ethanol. The main objective is to reduce production cost of the ethanol by using Water Hyacinth as a raw material and explore its feasibility for commercial scale utilization.
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Shweta I. Patel
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