Utilization of sweet potato (Ipomea batatas) Bengueta var. and Haponita var. in the production of ethanol as a potential source of biofuel.
Sweet potato has great potential for biofuel production. Processing sweet potatoes to turn starch into sugars and fermenting it can make an ethanol. This study focuses on using Bengueta and Haponita varieties of sweet potato for production of biofuel. The two varieties were compared based on the...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://thesis.dlsud.edu.ph/956/7/Biofuel...%20-%20EufracioNano.pdf http://thesis.dlsud.edu.ph/956/ |
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| Institution: | De La Salle University |
| Summary: | Sweet potato has great potential for biofuel production. Processing sweet
potatoes to turn starch into sugars and fermenting it can make an ethanol. This
study focuses on using Bengueta and Haponita varieties of sweet potato for
production of biofuel. The two varieties were compared based on the amount of
ethanol produced. The researchers obtained approximately the same amount of
ethanol from two varieties of sweet potato which was mainly due to same contents of
fermentable sugar in sweet potatoes and the result shows that there is no significant
difference between the two. Ethanol productivity was the same from different
varieties since the plants were at the same conditions. |
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