Forest Research: Open Access
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Abstract

Examination of Chemical Properties of Ethanol Product of Brachystegia eurichoma Wood

Ademola Johnson Afe

This work covers the process of making Ethanol from wood biomass instead of starchy biomass. The saw dust of Brachystegia eurichoma was collected in a saw mill in Ore, Ondo State, Nigeria and it was used to produce ethanol by hydrolysis and fermentation processes. The density of the wood species was 750 kg/cm3. The density of the ethanol produced was gotten to be 0.8033 g/cm3. The ionic constituents of the ethanol from the wood biomass was analyzed using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometric Analyzer (FTIR) and Atomic Absorption Spectrometric Analyzer (AAS). The AAS result shows that the ethanol obtained from the three wood species contains transition metals like Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), Cadmium (Cd) and Chromium (Cr) while the FTIR results show the presence of ethanol functional groups such as OH, Carbon to carbon single bond which are normal components of ethanol in the conventional ethanol.