Research Article
Production of Bioethanol using Water Hyacinth, an Aquatic Weed, as a Substrate
Shweta I. Patel* and Nirali G. Patel
Department of Microbiology, Bhagwan Mahavir College of Biotechnology, Surat, Gujarat, India
*Corresponding author: Shweta I. Patel, Department of Microbiology, Bhagwan Mahavir College of Biotechnology, Surat, Gujarat, India, E-mail: Shwetu1210@gmail.com
Article Information: Submission: 10/03/2015; Accepted: 23/04/2015; Published: 27/04/2015
Copyright: © 2015 Shweta I Patel, et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Water Hyacinth is a one of the aquatic plants which causes serious concern on aquatic environment. All efforts to control the growth and spread of
this weed have failed and hence concept of “Eradication through utilization” is being attempted. The purpose of present work is to study the production of
ethanol from water hyacinth, used as substrate, using isolated microbial strain. The cellulase enzyme producing microbial strains were isolated and the potent
cellulase producer strain is used to digest water hyacinth biomass, for the production of ethanol. The main objective is to reduce production cost of the ethanol
by using Water Hyacinth as a raw material and explore its feasibility for commercial scale utilization.