Production of ethanol from sawdust

• Main Author: Borja, Josephine Q.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1994
• Subjects: Alcohol; Wood waste; Wood > Chemistry; Chemistry; Technical; Pyrolysis; Acids; Chemical Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1633
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study involves the production of ethanol from sawdust (60 mesh) with pyrolysis as a pretreatment process to remove hemicellulose. The solid product after pyrolysis was hydrolyzed to produce fermentable sugars which were fermented to ethanol using Saccharomyces Cerivisiae. A parallel test was co...