Physicochemical Properties of Ethanol Produced from Three Wood Biomas

This work covers the production of ethanol from waste wood dust. For several decades, the major source of power in Nigeria is the petroleum. The petroleum fractions are too costly due to high cost of exportation of the crude oil resource for refining in foreign countries and high cost of importation of the refined oil. Incomplete combustion of the fractions of petroleum in engines brings about the release of a poisonous gas called carbon monoxide to the atmosphere. In order to check the adverse effects of petroleum fractions on lives, scientists discovered the use of ethanol, which burns completely with smokeless flame and without carbon (II) oxide emission as fuel alternative. Ethanol was initially produced from starch and it competed with food security. The evolution of the use of non-food feedstock raw material could alleviate some of the environmental concerns associated with grain ethanol production.