@article{jaem2015323,
author={{V., Mohanasrinivasan and E., Anand and C., SubathraDevi and S., Jemimah Naine and S., Karthikeyan},
title={Bioethanol Production from <i>Anacardium occidentale</i> Fruit Juiceand Preparation of Blended Fuel Using In-house Developed Bioreactor},
journal={Journal of Applied & Environmental Microbiology},
volume={3},
number={2},
pages={44--48},
year={2015},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/jaem/3/2/3},
issn={2373-6712},
abstract={Ethanol has been known for a long time, being perhaps the oldest product obtained through traditional biotechnology. In the present research work, bioreactor was designed to produce bioethanol from <i>Anacardium occidentale</i> using <i>Zymomonas mobilis</i> MTCC 2427. A minimum requirement bioreactor was designed for the mass production of ethanol. <i>Anacardium occidentale</i> substrate was pretreated, total and reducing sugar concentrations were determined and found to be 3.4 mg/mL and 1.8 mg/mL, respectively. During fermentation the bacterial load, sugar content and ethanol content were analyzed for five days, where the highest concentration of ethanol (28%) was obtained on the third day of fermentation and the corresponding bacterial load was 15x10<SUP>3</SUP>CFU. Ethanol obtained from the fermentation studies were further analyzed by FT-IR. The obtained ethanol was blended with petrol in different concentrations E5%, E10%, E15% and E20% respectively and successfully tested in four stroke engine.},
doi={10.12691/jaem-3-2-3}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}