>I have been trying to find out what is best used for fermenting cabbage for >ethanol production. Not much out there on the web. Anyone have a >suggestion? The only thing I've found so far is for producing sauerkraut >and ethanol production is minimal using those enzymes. > >Why cabbage? Because there are 40 acres of cabbage in front of and to the >south of my house. About half the cabbage is actually picked for market due >to size etc. and the rest rots in the field over the winter. If ethanol can >be produced from what's left then so much the better. > >Thanks. > >Regards; >John
It's not a starch or a sugar crop, but it might depend on the quality of the cabbage. Brix readings for cabbage range from 6% sugar for a poor-quality cabbage (but it might be much less) to 12% for an excellent one, which is rare. You could try juicing the cabbages and fermenting the juice. In which case this might help: The Manual for the Home and Farm Production of Alcohol Fuel http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/ethanol_manual/manual_ToC.html Chapter 6 PROCESSING STEPS SPECIFIC TO SACCHARINE MATERIALS General Description Extraction Chapter 10 INDIVIDUAL RAW MATERIALS Sugar/Starch Content vs Alcohol Saccharine Materials Fruits Molasses Cane Sorghum Sugar Beets Sugar Corn Wastes Otherwise you could feed them to chickens or something and feed the chicken manure to a biodigester. HTH, best wishes Keith _______________________________________________ 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/
