Studies on efficient utilization of fruit peel waste for Bio-Ethanol production

The current work is a basic study on utilization of fruit peels banana, muskmelon, pineapple and water melonas lignocellulosic sources for the production bioethanol. Fruit contain good amounts cellulose hemicellulose which can be pretreated to release fermentable sugars. Efforts were directed towards understanding critical factors influencing substrate loading, acid hydrolysis fermentation parameters. Various concentrations (10, 15 25%), treatment (0.5 1%) Incubation time(60-180 min) considered pretreatment optimization. It was observed that reducing sugar content highest in treated with 0.5% an incubation period 1 hour at 600C.The yields ethanol samples 10% concentration after about 7days.