Direct fermentation of Citrus Fruit Waste by Clostridium Acetobutylicum for Production of Butanol
Jaiswal Alok1★, Bhatnagar Tripti1★, Aggarwal Meetu2★★ Corresponding author
- 1Codon Biotech Pvt. Ltd., Noida, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA.
- 2Noida International University, G.Noida, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA.
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Jaiswal Alok
Bhatnagar TriptiCodon Biotech Pvt. Ltd., Noida, Uttar Pradesh, INDIA.
Received: 17-02-2016; Revised: 12-03-2016; Accepted: 02-04-2016.
Volume 5, Issue 1 · pp. 93–96 · PUBLISHED Jan-Apr 2016 · DOI:
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Butanol has been considered as a potential fuel or fuel additive and an alternate to Ethanol addition to fuel. Single-culture Clostridial fermentation was conducted to obtain Butanol from Citrus fruit waste as a low cost feedstock. Different inoculum concentrations and different nitrogen source were utilized for the fermentation. The fermentation resulted in 2.4. gm/l of butanol when only glucose was used as carbon source while production of Butanol increased to 3.01gm/l when orange pulp and peel was utilized. To further increase the production, low cost raw material like soyabean powder and animal waste were also used which resulted in 8gm/L of Butanol production.
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Alok, J., Tripti, B., & Meetu, A. (2016). Direct fermentation of Citrus Fruit Waste by Clostridium Acetobutylicum for Production of Butanol. Asian Journal of Biological and Life sciences, 5(1), 93–96.