ZP maize hybrids as a raw material for the bioethanol production

Abstract

The interest in maize as an ethanol producing plant was caused by the energetic crisis and restored as early as the beginning of the 1970s. The production of bioethanol as a fuel has been expanding for the last ten years. Renew ability of maze as a raw material and growing environmental pollution by oil products represent two principal reasons for maize becoming one of the major raw materials for the energy production. According to the insight into the development of the research work on the improvement of maize utilization, the objective of the present study was set up. The objective was to observe grain quality and fitness of ZP maize hybrids of a different genetic background in order to use them in the bioethanol production. The results obtained on the chemical composition, physical and fermentable properties of grain of selected ZP maize hybrids were presented in this study. .

Interesovanje za kukuruz kao etanol produkujuću biljku uzrokovano je energetskom krizom i obnovljeno je još početkom 1970-ih godina. Poslednjih desetak godina proizvodnja bioetanola za gorivo je u sve većoj ekspanziji. Obnovljivost kukuruza kao sirovine i sve veća zagađenost životne sredine produktima nafte predstavljaju dva osnovna razloga da on postaje jedna od glavnih sirovina za proizvodnju energije. Sagledavajući perspektivu razvoja istraživačkog rada na unapređenju korišćenja kukuruza za cilj ovog rada je postavljeno da se ispita kvalitet zrna i pogodnost ZP hibrida kukuruza različite genetičke osnove za proizvodnju bioetanola. U radu su prikazani rezultati ispitivanja hemijskog sastava, fizičkih i fermentacionih karakteristika zrna odabranih ZP hibrida kukuruza. .