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 http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html.This can lead to hydrous alcohol which can be used directly used as feed stocks (raw material) after removal of the water using compressed air and zeolites adsorption.Surely this can low energy consuming process and can be done in a decentralised small scale biomass refinery as alternate to the petroleum refinery.
sd Pannir On 8/4/05, Brian Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 sawdust. Oh > well at this point it is still in the thinking about it stage. I will gladly > leave some of this learning the hard way stuff for next season, or as they > say around here "Mañana" > > I will apprise you all of the mushroom experiment as it develops. > > Brian Rodgers My hopes go up and down up and down. > Brian > > 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 mouth > plastic 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 > edible 'oyster mushroom' was dipped for short time in 'chlorox' solution > (dilute sodium hypochlorite solution) and quickly inserted into sawdust with > sterilised tongs. The mouth of the bottle was stuffed with sterile cotton. I > was of course trying to make edible mushroom. sure enough the white > mycellium grew for 2-3 wks. A black coloured spot suddenly appeared and > quickly spread throughout the bottle killing the oyster, probably due to > poor sterile technique. The oyster mushroom was fresh from the supermarket. > It was growing for few weeks. I did not measure the glucose content for > which sterile water inlet/outlet fittings would have been necessary. I also > did not continue mushroom expts. in my kitchen, although I used it from time > to time for tinkering with kitchen chemistry, courtesy of my dear wife, who > is now looking over my shoulder at all this with a smile. Cheers. > > This is very helpful. Thank you so much. I have passed this along to my > friends in the New Mexico Mycological Society. http://www.mycowest.org/nmms/ > Let's see if they can get on the ball. > I received several responses about the wood digesting mushroom at the > Biofuels group. I wish I knew more about how mycelia operated. I don't know > which is the most useful feedback, so I posted the letters here for all > mycological society types out there. Please interpret and give me some > feedback so I can pass it along to these other scientific types. At first I > thought maybe we were barking up the wrong tree and then one fellow said, > Yes Oyster mushrooms, find the right one and grow some. Very cool. You mean > we aren't totally off the wall? Brian Rodgers > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 > messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > -- Pagandai V Pannirselvam Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN Departamento de Engenharia Química - DEQ Centro de Tecnologia - CT Programa de Pós Graduação em Engenharia Química - PPGEQ Grupo de Pesquisa em Engenharia de Custos - GPEC Av. Senador Salgado Filho, Campus Universitário CEP 59.072-970 , Natal/RN - Brasil Residence : Av Odilon gome de lima, 2951, Q6/Bl.G/Apt 102 Capim Macio EP 59.078-400 , Natal/RN - Brasil Telefone(fone ) ( 84 ) 3215-37690 Ramal210 32171557 Telefone(fax) ( 84 ) 3215-3770 residencia 32171557 Cellular 84 88145083 _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
