Biofuel revolution: Turning agricultural waste into high-yield, affordable green energy.
In this research, scientists aimed to make a lot of sugar from plant waste for making biofuel more efficiently. They tested different combinations of special enzymes on different plant materials to find the best mix for breaking down the plants into sugar. They found that using a mix of enzymes on corncob waste at high concentrations worked well. By applying this enzyme mix in a special way called fed-batch hydrolysis, they achieved a high sugar concentration in a short time. After 48 hours, the sugar levels reached 110.47 grams per liter for glucose and 61.88 grams per liter for xylose, with a high sugar production rate of 3.6 grams per liter per hour. This method could help in making biofuels more efficiently from leftover plant materials.