Abstract

MICROBIAL CONVERSION OF CELLULOSE INTO BIOETHANOL

*S. Ashok Kumar, J. Santhosh, C. Venkatesh, Dr. N. G. Ramesh Babu, Dr. N. Saravanan and S. Parvathy

Abstract

Ethanol is a bio degradable and renewable fuel which causes less pollution then other existing fuels. In this study the production of ethanol from Duck weed, Aquatic ferm, grass and Rotten wastes were carried out using three microbes such as Bacillus thuringensis, Klebsiella pneumonia and Clostridium thermocellum which are used for the degradation or convertion of cellulose to glucose and the fermentation was carried out using yeast(Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and the purification was done by activated carbon and the quantitative and qualitative analysis were done.

Keywords: Ethanol, Duck weed, Aquatic ferm, Grass and Rotten wastes, microbes, Fermentation, purification, degradation, cellulose, glucose.