Biofuel Production from Sensitive Plant (Mimosa Pudica) through Synchronized Biofuel Production Plant

Abstract

Abstract Mimosa pudicais among the medicinal herbal plant. It is a creeping annual or perennial herb often grown for its curiosity values; as the compound leaves fold inward and drop when touched and reopens within minutes later. It belongs to Fabaceae family. The general objective of these research work is to produce biofuel from sensitive plant using existing ethanol production plant. The sensitive plant was gotten from bushes at Moor Plantation, samples as used include 78% concentration of Hydrogen tetraoxosulphate (iv) acid (H2SO4), 3L, 6L and 9L of water was added with the mass of sensitive plant. The evaluation was carried out using the mass of dried sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica) such as replicate mass of sensitive plant (kg), volume of H2SO4 (L), volume of H2O (L) added to ferment the feed stock, mass of ethanol produced after been distilled (kg), volume of ethanol produced (L), time and temperature used from each ethanol extraction. Also, it was observed that the average quantity of mean of mass of ethanol produced after been distilled from 0.5kg of sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica) to be 0.0404kg, average quantity of mean of volume of ethanol produced is 0.0454 L and the average quantity of mean of temperature is 74.680C. It was concluded that the temperature of the ethanol produced increases as the mass of sensitive plant increases and its time of production of each replicate (0.5kg, 1.0kg, 1.5kg) also increases.