Bioethanol Production Plant

is produced by fermentation of biomass material, which can be described according to the equation. (6.21) Many agricultural products and wastes such as sugar cane, potatoes, switch grass, corn, starch-rich and material can be converted to ethanol by fermentation. , as an alternative to the fossil fuels, is mainly produced by yeast fermentation from different feed stocks. It is a high octane number fuel and its features are considerably different compared to the gasoline (Table 1) (6).