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Bioethanol Production from Potato Peels Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae Treated with ZnO and ZnO/g-C3N4 Nanomaterials

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Bioethanol is a promising biofuel produced from agricultural wastes. The problem is that the bioconversion of cellulose to bioethanol takes a long time for excellent results. Predominantly, efficient enzymes and active microorganisms (yeast) can enhance the enzymatic saccharification and fermentation bioprocesses, respectively. The addition of nutrients and electron acceptors in form of nanomaterials was found to modify the bioenvironment and to biostimulate the microorganisms to accomplish the target bioprocesses efficiently. The objective of this investigation was to increase bioethanol production from agricultural wastes using nanomaterials. In this study, the bioethanol production from potato peels (as an example of agricultural wastes) was increased using ZnO nanomaterials and ZnO/g-C3N4 nanomaterials with the concentration of 5, 10, 15, 50, 100, and 150 mg/L each as well as the control (without the addition of nanomaterials). It was hypothesized that yeast treatment with nanomaterials (nutrients) leads to biostimulate yeast cells and increases cell activity. Consequently, it is hypothesized that these procedures increase bioethanol production from potato peels over a shorter Hydraulic Retention Time (HRT), i.e., residence time. It was found that the biostimulation of the fungi (yeast) Saccharomyces cerevisiae using 150 mg/L of ZnO/g-C3N4 nanomaterials generated the highest bioethanol concentration of 33.2% compared to all other treatments.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2022.118978.5351

Keywords

Bioethanol, fungi, agricultural wastes, Nanotechnology, Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Authors

First Name

Yasser

Last Name

Attia

MiddleName

Attia

Affiliation

Department of Laser in Meteorology, Photochemistry & Agriculture (LAMPA), Nation

Email

yasserniles@gmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0002-5830-2250

First Name

Essam

Last Name

Abdelsalam

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences, Cairo University, 12613 Giza, Egypt.

Email

abdelsalam@niles.edu.eg

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0002-6047-5409

First Name

Samr

Last Name

Saeed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences, Cairo University, Giza, 12613, Egypt

Email

samrsaid56@gmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

-

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Saleh

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, Cairo University

Email

msaleh@sci.cu.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Samer

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University

Email

msamer@agr.cu.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-3689-286X

Volume

65

Article Issue

13

Related Issue

37459

Issue Date

2022-12-01

Receive Date

2022-01-29

Publish Date

2022-12-01

Page Start

309

Page End

315

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_241441.html

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297

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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

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Bioethanol Production from Potato Peels Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae Treated with ZnO and ZnO/g-C3N4 Nanomaterials

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Created At

22 Jan 2023