Pretreatment of cocoa waste for bioethanol production using ionic liquid

• Main Authors: Idi, Ahmad, Md. Salleh, Madihah, Ibrahim, Zaharah, Mohamad, Shaza Eva
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit UTM Press 2012
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/47415/1/ShazaEvaMohamad2012_PretreatmentofCocoaWasteforBioethanol.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/47415/; https://jurnalteknologi.utm.my/index.php/jurnalteknologi/article/view/1584
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

One of the major advantages of biofuel over fossil fuel is that it is environmentally friendly but unfortunately most of the chemicals used in the pretreatment of lignocelluloses biomass to produce biofuel can cause adverse effects to the environment. In this study, ionic liquid was used for the pre...