Bioethanol production from pulp of fruits

Increase in the need of petroleum results a remarkable rise in its prices. Therefore the need arises to discover alternative cheaper sources for fulfillment of world population demand. Hence the main objective to satisfy this need leads to the development of easier techniques using cheaper and eco-friendly raw materials for the production of Bio-ethanol. One such technique is production of Bio-Ethanol, an alternative to the present petrol and diesel, from fruit wastes by using well known yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae RK1. The use of mixture of three fruits namely Banana, Grapes and Mango was used as a possible substrate for production of cellulosic ethanol by modifying parameters such as aeration. Pretreatment, hydrolysis and fermentation were carried out during this study. After fermentation of mixed fruits pulp without sucrose and fruits pulp with sucrose produced 0.67% ethanol and 1.32% ethanol respectively. Thus, the main objective behind this study is to produce bio-ethanol using cheaper substrates. The present study indicates a promising future for generation of ethanol at commercial scale from cellulosic wastes. Phylogenetic tree shows similarity with yeast sp.