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Ethanol Production problems


  • 1. What are different substrates used for ethanol production?

  • Options
  • A. Starch containing substrate
  • B. Juices from sugarcane or molasses or sugar beet
  • C. Waste product from wood or processed wood
  • D. All of the above
  • Discuss
  • 2. After the fermentation is over, ethanol is recovered by

  • Options
  • A. centrifugation
  • B. distillation
  • C. filtration
  • D. cell disintegration
  • Discuss
  • 3. Which of the following is used for agitation in a fermentor?

  • Options
  • A. Impeller
  • B. Baffles
  • C. Sparger
  • D. All of these
  • Discuss
  • 4. Yeast is used in the production of

  • Options
  • A. ethyl alcohol
  • B. acetic acid
  • C. cheese
  • D. curd
  • Discuss
  • 5. The fermentor can be sterilized by

  • Options
  • A. keeping it in the oven
  • B. steam under pressure
  • C. boiling
  • D. all of these
  • Discuss
  • 6. How is air supply to the fermentor sterilized?

  • Options
  • A. By heat filtration
  • B. Filtration through fibrous material
  • C. Filtration through granular material
  • D. All of the above
  • Discuss
  • 7. Which of the following organism is not used in any of the traditional industrial fermentation?

  • Options
  • A. E. coli
  • B. Yeast
  • C. Bacillus
  • D. Pseudomonas
  • Discuss
  • 8. Ethanol is produced by

  • Options
  • A. continuous fermentation
  • B. batch fermentation
  • C. both (a) and (b)
  • D. none of these
  • Discuss
  • 9. Candida utilis is used for the fermentation of waste sulphate liquor since it ferments

  • Options
  • A. hexoses only
  • B. pentoses only
  • C. both hexoses and pentoses
  • D. none of these
  • Discuss

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