By Carla Ortiz
A group of scientists from the University of Central Florida in the U.S. have developed a new method for producing ethanol from waste products such as fur orange and newspapers. The results of this research have been published in the journal "Plant Biotechnology Journal."
The method has been developed that is more environmentally friendly and cheaper than those available today for vehicles traveling with a cleaner fuel and thus gasoline becomes a secondary fuel. This new method can be applied to various non-food products including sugar cane, millet and straw.
The technique uses combinations of enzymes derived from plants to achieve the decomposition of orange peel and other waste materials and convert them into sugar, which will later be fermented into ethanol. Corn starch (sugar) is fermented and converted into ethanol ethanol derived from corn, which normally produces more emissions of greenhouse gases than gasoline. Ethanol has succeeded in developing Scientists produce far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline or electricity.
Scientists have also explained that there are a number of waste products that could be used without reducing food supplies and rising global price a little food. Only in Florida researchers say that orange peel is discarded could produce 757 million liters of ethanol per year.Flights scientists conducting research on biological fuels have been described as promising initial results.
As the waste product is used, will require a combination more than 10 specific enzymes to convert biomass into sugar and ethanol as a last step. Needed orange peel over the pectinase enzyme, while the wastes, eg wood, require more xylanase. All enzymes used by the researchers found in nature.
used in the laboratory fungal genes of wood decay or bacteria and enzymes in plants produced snuff. The production of these enzymes in the snuff instead of manufactured synthetic versions could reduce the cost of production in about a thousand times, which could very significantly reduce the cost of ethanol production. The Researchers chose the snuff because it is not a food crop, produces large amounts of energy per acre and also this alternative use could significantly decrease consumption only to snuff.
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