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. 2008 Jan 11;47(4):353–357. doi: 10.1007/s12088-007-0063-1

Cauliflower waste incorporation into cane molasses improves ethanol production using Saccharomyces cerevisiae MTCC 178

Gurpreet Singh Dhillon 1, Sunil Bansal 1, Harinder Singh Oberoi 1,✉
PMCID: PMC3450038  PMID: 23100689

Abstract

Diluted cane molasses having total sugar and reducing sugar content of 9.60 and 3.80% (w/v) respectively was subjected to ethanol production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae MTCC 178. Incorporation of dried Cauliflower Waste (CW) in molasses at the level of 15 % increased ethanol production by nearly 36 % compared to molasses alone. Addition of 0.2 % yeast extract improved ethanol production by nearly 49 % as compared to molasses alone. When the medium containing diluted molasses and 0.2 % yeast extract was supplemented with 15 % CW, 29 % more ethanol was produced compared to molasses with 0.2 % yeast extract. Cell biomass, ethanol production, final ethanol concentration and fermentation efficiency of 2.65 mg mL−1, 41.2 gL−1, 0.358 gg−1 and 70.11 % respectively were found to be best at 15% CW supplementation level besides reduction in fermentation time but further increase in CW level resulted in decline on account of all the above parameters. This is probably the first report to our knowledge, in which CW was used in enhancing ethanol production significantly using a small quantity of yeast extract.

Keywords: Molasses, Cauliflower waste, Yeast extract, Ethanol production, Total sugars, Fermentation efficiency

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