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Enhancement of sustainable bioethanol production from microorganisms isolated from molasses and venasses

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Renewable energy in sugar industry
Utilization of sugar industry wastes

Abstract

Ethanol is one of the most important biofuels that can be produced from different renewable sources. Molasses and Venasses are used as cheap raw materials in the isolation of microorganisms and used molasses as renewable materials for ethanol production. Molasses and Venasses are considered important by-products in the sugar industry. This study aims to isolate and identify yeasts and bacteria present in both molasses and venasses to use them in the production of bioethanol. Molasses and venasses samples were collected from ten different sugar factories (Guirga, Savola, Deshna, Komombo, Abokorkaus, Delta, Dakahlia, Qus, Nag-hamdy, Armant) and were used to isolate different microorganisms that were screened for their bioethanol productivity. The results showed that the molasses samples contained more microbes than venasses. Twelve isolates were molecularly identified as S. cerevisiae by PCR-specific primers, while 64 isolates were bacterial isolates. All the yeast and bacterial isolates were screened for bioethanol productivity. Isolate M3 showed the highest bioethanol productivity (74%) and was identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing as Klebsiella pneumoniae. Several factors affected the production of bioethanol, including sugar concentration, urea, and ammonium sulfate. When molasses was used as the carbon source, Klebsiella pneumoniae produced 1% (v/v) bioethanol by utilizing 20% molasses (sugar concentration), 0.4% urea, and 0.4% ammonium sulfate. When UV- mutagenesis was used to improve the bioethanol productivity, all the obtained mutants showed lower productivity compared to the wild-type (M3 isolate).

DOI

10.21608/esugj.2024.270451.1052

Keywords

Molasses, Venasses, Bioethanol, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Mutagenesis

Authors

First Name

Alaa

Last Name

Mostafa

MiddleName

Fathy

Affiliation

Industrial Biotechnology, Faculty of Sugar Industry Technology and Integrated Industries, Assiut University

Email

alaafathy5462@aun.edu.eg

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First Name

Bahaa

Last Name

Abdel-Fattah

MiddleName

El-Din El-Sayed

Affiliation

Department of Genetics, Agriculture, Assiut University

Email

bahaaeldeen.eisa@agr.aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

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First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

El-Rawy

MiddleName

Abo El-Saud

Affiliation

Department of Genetics, Agriculture, Assiut University

Email

mabosuud2020@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

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First Name

Ameer

Last Name

Elfarash

MiddleName

Effat

Affiliation

Department of Genetics, Agriculture, Assiut University

Email

aelfarash@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut

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Volume

21

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0

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42680

Issue Date

2023-12-01

Receive Date

2024-02-15

Publish Date

2024-03-22

Page Start

54

Page End

62

Print ISSN

2636-2694

Online ISSN

2636-283X

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https://esugj.journals.ekb.eg/article_346281.html

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2,178

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Publication Title

Egyptian Sugar Journal

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

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Enhancement of sustainable bioethanol production from microorganisms isolated from molasses and venasses

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28 Dec 2024