- “The process of ethanol fermentation has a long history in the production of alcoholic drinks, but much larger scale production of ethanol is now required to enable its use as a substituent of gasoline fuels at 3%, 10%, or 85% (referred to as E3, E10, and E85, respectively).” 1
Researchers from Department of Applied Molecular Bioscience, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokiwadai, Ube, Japan; and from Iwata Chemical Co Ltd, Nakaizumi, Iwata, Japan; have presented an article titled: “High-temperature fermentation: how can processes for ethanol production at high temperatures become superior to the traditional process using mesophilic yeast?”
The researchers from Tokiwadai, Ube, and Nakaizumi, Iwata, have also noted:
- “… production costs are a major issue for the production of fuel ethanol.”
- “… high-temperature fermentation using a newly isolated thermotolerant strain of the yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus.”
- “… 5 degrees C increase only in the fermentation temperature can greatly affect the fuel ethanol production costs.”
- “… this approach may also be applicable to the other microbial fermentations systems and propose that thermotolerant mesophilic microorganisms have considerable potential for the development of future fermentation technologies.”
