A Step into Future Fuel Industrial Effluents into Bioethanol: A Review
R. S. Vidhya Ganesh *
Department of Microbiology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
R. Parimala Devi
Department of Renewable Energy and Engineering, Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
D. Ramesh
Department of Renewable Energy and Engineering, Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
S. Karthikeyan
Department of Post Harvest Technology Centre, Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
D. Murugananthi
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Industrial revolution in agro based industries with improved technologies, machineries, etc. has resulted in the ease of operation, availability of increased number of value added products in the field of agriculture, effective labour management, etc. Agro industries are one of the major contributors for environmental pollution and accounts for about 10-15% for pollution. As the wastes generated from agro-industries are of biological origin, they can be effectively reused; if their alternate uses are explored. As these industrial effluents contain lignocellulose, cellulose, and hemicellulose, which are rich sources of lignin, and cellulose, it is possible to use these materials as a substrate to produce bioethanol. Our current review focuses on bioethanol production from different industrial effluents and Bio-microbial based fermentation.
Keywords: Bioethanol, fossil fuel, industrial effluent, fermentation