Fourteenth International Conference on Food Studies

Abstract

The yield of bioethanol from sugarcane was examined in this study. The extracted juice was left to ferment naturally for seven days. The production was carried out in a distillation apparatus consisting a round bottom flask of 250ml which holds the extracted juice. The top flask was connected with condenser through the connecter. The product was collected in the conical flask. The round bottom flask was heated at 90oC so as not to reach the boiling point of water and in order to achieve steady distillation, approximately one drop per second of distillate. The extract was collected along with some other distillates. The process was repeated for the collected products at 80oC so as to further redistilled the ethanol. The produced ethanol was subjected to certain parameters, which includes: flash point, ignition temperature, vapour flammability limit, specific gravity, boiling point, vapour density and research octane number. The values obtained were compared with American Standard for Testing Material (ASTM D 6751).