Question on Biopolymer PLEASE HELP (1 Viewer)

[rusty91]

Hey there,

A question for you to answer:

Can bioethanol be regarded as a biopolymer or just a hydrocarbon?

With what i had found out is that bioethanol goes through a process of catalytic cracking after fermentation in ethene and then through condensation polymerisation to form polyethylene.

Please answer back i really need to know

 

[xiao1985]

a) a biopolymer is a hydrocarbon
b) how what you described doesn't make much sense:

"process of catalytic cracking after fermentation"
fermentation converts glucose or sucrose into ethanol
catalytic cracking converts long chain short demand hydrocarbons into short chain long demand hydrocarbons.

"then through condensation polymerisation..."
condensation polymerisation is the polymerisation happening between two terminal functional groups, neither ethene nor ethanol has them.

from wiki, so it seemed that bioethanol is just ethanol obtained in a renewable fashion. where did you get your info from?

 

[sle3pe3bumz]

Biopolymer: naturally occuring polymers made using renewable resources.

note the word polymer.

Ethanol is NOT a polymer.