Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-10 Thread Tom Irwin
Hello Ken, Many thanks for posting the research. I´ve downloaded it and will consume it this weekend. Tom Irwin From: Ken Gotberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSent: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:31:13 -0300Subject: Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms I’ll

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-09 Thread Ken Gotberg
I’ll combine my answers. Bob Yes, you need a cellulase to extract glucose and there are many with those from Trichoderma reesei being the most common and most studied with the genome known (?). The glucose has many uses with ethanol being just one of them losing ~ half of the starting material

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-08 Thread Ken Gotberg
I was reading just yesterday about using white rot fungus in the form of mushrooms of the common button type as selective for lignin and leaving the cellulose and hemicellulose alone as part of a pulping scheme. The cellulose and maybe the hemicellulose can then be fermented to ethanol. (Another

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-08 Thread bob allen
Howdy Ken, Ken Gotberg wrote: I was reading just yesterday about using white rot fungus in the form of mushrooms of the common button type as selective for lignin and leaving the cellulose and hemicellulose alone as part of a pulping scheme. The cellulose and maybe the hemicellulose can then

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-08 Thread Tom Irwin
. Tom Irwin From: Ken Gotberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSent: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 10:07:20 -0300Subject: Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms I was reading just yesterday about using white rot fungus in the form of mushrooms of the common button type

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-08 Thread Greg and April
Please, I have not heard of thisuse of MoS2before. Greg H. - Original Message - From: Ken Gotberg To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 7:07 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms I was reading just

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms using bioprocess

2005-08-05 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Hello to every one Very simple bio process using mushroom Pluretus can give substrate for simultaneous saccharification(hydrolysis) and fermentation , this can lead to low alcohol content , but a simple solvent extraction with Castor oil as outlined in

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-04 Thread Manick Harris
Hello Brian. This is most intriguing. Let me describe another sawdust expt. which I did in my kitchen. I first placed the sawdust in a clean wide mouthplastic feeding bottle, anchored it in a pot of water, and boiled for 30 min. with lid on to sterilise the sawdust. On cooling a small piece of

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-04 Thread Brian Rodgers
Now that you bring up this point about yeast and fungi eating sugar the same stuff needed to ferment, it occurs to me that these fungi folks were unaware that I was trying to ferment the sawdust. Their original plan as I recall was to help my friend who owns a small sawmill to dispose of

[Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-03 Thread Brian Rodgers
I talked with a few folks last night about the home brewing of ethanol from sawdust. I am happy to announce that these guys are working on a found Oyster Mushroom mycelium that they are hopeful will break down the cellulose in order to separate the lignin. If this experiment works they may

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Redler
I hope your friend isn't too adventurous. You might find him with more than his shoes off, skipping around and talking to the trees. :-) MikeBrian Rodgers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I talked with a few folks last night about the home brewing of ethanol from sawdust. I am happy to announce that

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-03 Thread Tom Irwin
Redler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSent: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:38:32 -0300Subject: Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms I hope your friend isn't too adventurous. You might find him with more than his shoes off, skipping around and talking to the trees

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Redler
particularly the surfaces. There might be some folks out there who can biofacture the enzyme from the fungus. Tom Irwin From: Michael Redler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSent: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:38:32 -0300Subject: Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms I hope

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-03 Thread Fred Finch
From: Michael Redler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:38:32 -0300 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms I hope your friend isn't too adventurous. You might find him with more than

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-03 Thread Brian Rodgers
Hehe I hope your friend isn't too adventurous. You might find him with more than his shoes off, skipping around and talking to the trees. :-) Mike Yep no doubt about it, but it might be a good idea for more of us to try a little "talking to the trees". Let's see if Mother Nature

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-03 Thread Brian Rodgers
Hello Fred thanks for the input, even if it does pop another bubble, dammit. Mushrooms like the same sugars that yeasts like. So a lot of what you are trying to get from the wood is what the fungi consumes. I have cultured both yeasts and fungi and had to have completely seperate laminar

Re: [Biofuel] ethanol from wood using mushrooms

2005-08-03 Thread Tom Irwin
Hi all, I should have given more details about the processing. You have to grow the fungus separately and limit one of the nutrients. It produces good quantities of the peroxidase but it probably is not for those without a lab. I never got to the point of separating the peroxidase as I was