Appl. Sci. 2012, 2(4), 738-753; doi:10.3390/app2040738
Ethanol Production from Waste Potato Mash by Using Saccharomyces Cerevisiae †
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Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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The Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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The original data was presented in thesis of “Izmirlioglu, G. Ethanol Production from Waste Potato Mash Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae. M.S. Thesis, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA, 2010”.
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Received: 16 July 2012 / Revised: 19 September 2012 / Accepted: 10 October 2012 / Published: 22 October 2012
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy)
Abstract
Bio-ethanol is one of the energy sources that can be produced by renewable sources. Waste potato mash was chosen as a renewable carbon source for ethanol fermentation because it is relatively inexpensive compared with other feedstock considered as food sources. However, a pretreatment process is needed: specifically, liquefaction and saccharification processes are needed to convert starch of potato into fermentable sugars before ethanol fermentation. In this study, hydrolysis of waste potato mash and growth parameters of the ethanol fermentation were optimized to obtain maximum ethanol production. In order to obtain maximum glucose conversions, the relationship among parameters of the liquefaction and saccharification process was investigated by a response surface method. The optimum combination of temperature, dose of enzyme (α-amylase) and amount of waste potato mash was 95 °C, 1 mL of enzyme (18.8 mg protein/mL) and 4.04 g dry-weight/100 mL DI water, with a 68.86% loss in dry weight for liquefaction. For saccharification, temperature, dose of enzyme and saccharification time were optimized and optimum condition was determined as 60 °C-72 h-0.8 mL (300 Unit/mL) of amyloglucosidase combination, yielded 34.9 g/L glucose. After optimization of hydrolysis of the waste potato mash, ethanol fermentation was studied. Effects of pH and inoculum size were evaluated to obtain maximum ethanol. Results showed that pH of 5.5 and 3% inolculum size were optimum pH and inoculum size, respectively for maximum ethanol concentration and production rate. The maximum bio-ethanol production rate was obtained at the optimum conditions of 30.99 g/L ethanol. Since yeast extract is not the most economical nitrogen source, four animal-based substitutes (poultry meal, hull and fines mix, feather meal, and meat and bone meal) were evaluated to determine an economical alternative nitrogen source to yeast extract. Poultry meal and feather meal were able to produce 35 g/L and 32.9 g/L ethanol, respectively, which is higher than yeast extract (30.8 g/L). In conclusion, waste potato mash was found as a promising carbon source for ethanol fermentation with alternate nitrogen sources.Keywords:
enzyme hydrolysis; response surface method; bio-ethanol; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; fermentation; waste potato mash
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Izmirlioglu, G.; Demirci, A. Ethanol Production from Waste Potato Mash by Using Saccharomyces Cerevisiae . Appl. Sci. 2012, 2, 738-753.
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