Getting fuel from maltose (malt sugar)
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Key words: Saccharomysesceviseae, methane, natural gas, renewable energy, maltose, malt sugar.Abstract
This process is preferable than sucrose in production of natural gas because
maltose is hydrolyzed into two glucose molecules. While sucrose gives only
one glucose molecule. This process depends on bioremediation which is
defined as using of organism to degrade hazardous organic contaminants into
safe environmental compound.
An anaerobic yeast is being used to convert sugar into alcohol then it is being
oxidized to obtain acetic acid then some neutralization and heating reactions in
the presence of catalysts the elevate the pressure to get natural gas, the resulted
product from these chemical reactions are 6 liters of natural gas from just 1 liter
of maltose solution.
Maltose is extracted from malt and then add maltase enzyme to get two
molecules of glucose. Then glucose is being fermented in anaerobic conditions
using Saccharomysesceviseaeyeast and zymase enzyme to get ethanol. Oxidize
ethanol using potassium dichromate acidified with concentrated sulfuric acid to
get vinegar.
In a neutralization reaction, acetic acid is neutralized with sodium hydroxide to
get sodium acetate and water. The resulted sodium acetate is reacted with soda
lime (a mixture of sodium hydroxide and calcium oxide for the sake of
reducing the melting point in the reaction) with heating in Bunsen flame to
obtain methane and sodium carbonate.
methane gas is reacted with hot water at a temperature of 725˚C using a
gravimetrical oven (the temperature can be controlled up to 900˚C) and the
pressure is increased to 200 atmospheric pressure to form a mixture of
hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide which are combined rapidly after the
reaction to produce hydro-gas or natural gas which is an efficient fuel.