Alcohol has many applications in the industry – as fuel, in producing diethyl ether, for sterilization etc.

Two major methods of producing alcohol are hydrolysis of ethene and fermentation of glucose. Glucose is an expensive feedstock hence other carbohydrates are used.

The good news is we can now produce alcohol from biomass wastes such as sugarcane bagasse and sawdust.

In a research that I provided Technical Assistance at my Center, we were able to breakdown the lignin that hindered access to cellulose in these wastes, did chemical hydrolysis and then fermented the reducing sugar to alcohol.

Physico-chemical analysis as well as GC-MS/FTIR result confirmed the claim.

At Odfid Technical Center we conduct trial experiments at our lab, develop research proposal before a study is advanced to specialized laboratories for analysis, then we analyze results using Excel and MATLAB.

Ongoing environmental researches we are assisting include converting biomass waste to biogas and biopolymer, development of adsorbent, design of batch reactor, combustor, and adsorber.

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