ABSTRACT
The overall decline in the conventional oil production, emission of carbon monoxide due to burning of fossil fuels and threatening global climatic change highlights the need for an alternative energy fuel [1]. Ethanol serves this purpose well as it possesses the following advantages over conventional fuel: it reduces CO emissions, it can easily blend with petrol, ensures cleaner environment, and also renewable. Bioethanol can be produced from domestically abundant sources of biomass including agricultural and forestry residues, waste papers and other sizeable portions of municipal solid wastes [2].
