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Tea Wastes as An Alternative Sustainable Raw Material for Ethanol Production

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Biochemistry

Abstract

Integrating sustainability in life became an urgent necessity. Currently tea sectors play important role in adopting new technologies in order to reduce tea wastes .Collection of these wastes for production of ethanol will contribute to the improvement of life and the environment. Simple technique was proposed for saccharification of spent tea leaves either by cellulase or fermentation with baker's yeast. Scanning electron microscope analysis showed certain modification for the morphology of both green and black tea leaves. Brunauer Emmett Teller analysis confirmed the increment in surface area of both tea leaves. X- Ray Diffraction analysis proved the amorphous nature of their cellulose with little crystallinity. This nature eases their saccharification because cellulose is usually susceptible to degradation in its amorphous form. The percentage of produced ethanol was 74.4% from spent green tea leaves and 80.7% from spent black tea leaves after 24 h at mild temperature. The habit of drinking tea in Egypt shed the light on a promising approach relies on the production of ethanol from tea wastes especially spent tea leaves.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2020.21785.2293

Keywords

Keywords: Tea wastes, ethanol, cellulose, amorphous, saccharification, bakers' yeast

Authors

First Name

Doaa

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

A.R.

Affiliation

Chemistry of Natural and Microbial Products Dept., Pharmaceutical and Drug Industries Research Div.National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt P.O. Box: 12622

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doaanrc1993@gmail.com

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First Name

Mousa A.

Last Name

Allam

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Spectroscopy Department, National Research Centre

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First Name

mohammad

Last Name

Farag

MiddleName

Mohammad

Affiliation

Biomaterials Department, National Research Centre

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mmfaragnrc@gmail.com

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Volume

63

Article Issue

7

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10593

Issue Date

2020-07-01

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2019-12-31

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2020-07-01

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2,683

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2,697

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0449-2285

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2357-0245

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297

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Tea Wastes as An Alternative Sustainable Raw Material for Ethanol Production

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22 Jan 2023