Diversification of the product portfolio of sugarcane biorefineries through the use of sugarcane syrup for the production of ethanol throughout the year will provide significant economic return to the Sugar and Allied Industries and further promote their economic competitiveness. Therefore, study was carried out to enhance the inversion efficiency () through optimizing different parameters like acid concentration, enzyme concentration, temperature and reaction time for sugarcane juice inversion. With the optimized conditions, it was possible to get 100 inversion efficiency at 120 min and 350 min reaction time, respectively for acid and enzyme method. It was also possible to get 93.47 inversion efficiency at 550 min reaction time through invertion of sugarcane syrup containing 60 of sucrose concentration. Further the syrup could be stored up to 10 Months of duration which is a good sign for Industries for its use during off-season for ethanol production.
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