Abstract
Batch fermentations of sugar-cane blackstrap molasses to ethanol, using pressed yeast as inoculum, demonstrated an exponential relationship between the time necessary to complete the fermentation and the initial concentrations of sugar and yeast cells. The parameters of the derived exponential equations depended on the experimental conditions.
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Borzani, W., Gerab, A., De La Higuera, G.A. et al. Batch ethanol fermentation of molasses: a correlation between the time necessary to complete the fermentation and the initial concentrations of sugar and yeast cells. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 9, 265–268 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327852
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