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Rural homes cooking service in Kenya is one of the most energy-intensive activities but, often relying on harmful polluting fuels. Moreover, every clean cooking system in the market is built for the elite, not for the rural poor. From some non-food indigenous tree leaves, I am refining a clean fuel solution that will transition rural households to cheap cleaner in-house air home cooking stoves, rural economic empowerment, infrastructural development, and climate. I used experimental techniques i.e. Hydrothermal juice extraction, starter culture inoculation, fermentation, distillation, chemical analysis & functionality tests to formulate the technology concept. The wild tree leaf contains 81.7% carbohydrates than corn 69.1%. I employed Saccharomyces cerevisiae inoculant for fermentation. Macerating, juice extraction, fermentation & fractional distillation equipments were employed. The fuel burns clean at our lab. Key activities were; Leaf collection, sugars extraction, fermentation, distillation and product packaging. Alcoholmeter was used to determine purity at our lab level. Chemical analysis was done by KEBS; flash point, calorific value etc. were determined. ‘Cedrast’ market segmentation; .Transportation, clean home cooking stove, Power Generation, Food & Beverages, Industrial, and Medical. I produced 300mls of 87%v/v pure clean burning liquid from one kilo of the leaves. This initiative aims to catalyze a Competitive Sustainable Bioethanol fuel production venture locally globally, for the people and planet through replication. Certification will be done by KEBS and, the SGS International for international markets. I call for solidarity with like-minded stakeholders to assist in refining this idea, steering fuel grade ethanol commercial production at global scale.
| Title | Sustainable Bioethanol fuel production for sustainable development and rural women & youth economic Empowerment. |
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