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Deterioration of sugarcane molasses during storage and its effect on ethanol fermentation efficiency in distillery factories

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Renewable energy in sugar industry
Utilization of sugar industry wastes

Abstract

Bioethanol is one of the most employed liquid biofuels due to the easy adaptability of this fuel to existing engines and because this is a cleaner fuel with a higher-octane rating than gasoline. Among the widely used substrates for ethanol production is sugarcane molasses. Unsuitable storage of molasses results in deterioration of fermentable sugars, consequently ethanol yield quality and efficiency. The present study aimed to shed light on the effect of the storage period on the efficiency of sugarcane molasses and its effect on ethanol fermentation efficiency in distillery factories. The results showed that the total fermentable and non-fermentable sugars involved in sugar cane molasses varied between samples that were collected according to the location source. Also, ethanol yield and fermentation efficiency were different in the fermented molasses media, which contained the same concentration of fermentable sugars. About 2.65 - 11.20% of fermentable sugars in molasses were lost when stored under different temperatures. The loss was increased with the increasing storage temperature. Most of the loss happened in the first two months, especially at high temperatures. The decrease in ethanol yield and fermentation efficiency was affected sharply in the molasses storage at high temperatures than the low ones. From this study, the suitable storage temperature must not exceed 40°С to maintain molasses quality and avoid molasses deterioration by heat in temperatures.

DOI

10.21608/esugj.2022.128090.1006

Keywords

Sugarcane, Molasses, deterioration, Storage, ethanol fermentation

Authors

First Name

Abd El-Naser

Last Name

Zohri

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

zohriassiut@yahoo.com

City

Assiut

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Soliman

MiddleName

F.

Affiliation

Department of Microbial Chemistry, National Research Center, Giza, Egypt.

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City

Giza

Orcid

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First Name

Osama

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Egyptian Sugar and Integrated Industries Company, Giza, Egypt.

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City

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Orcid

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First Name

Adel

Last Name

Abdel Aziz

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Egyptian Sugar and Integrated Industries Company, Giza, Egypt.

Email

a7md.mido2001@gmail.com

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Volume

18

Article Issue

0

Related Issue

31473

Issue Date

2022-06-01

Receive Date

2022-03-24

Publish Date

2022-05-15

Page Start

32

Page End

39

Print ISSN

2636-2694

Online ISSN

2636-283X

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https://esugj.journals.ekb.eg/article_236341.html

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Original Research Articles.

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2,178

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Sugar Journal

Publication Link

https://esugj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Deterioration of sugarcane molasses during storage and its effect on ethanol fermentation efficiency in distillery factories

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Created At

23 Jan 2023