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Fermentation and Fractional Distillation

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AEsmiling 1:30 - 6:30

Post Lab Research:

1. Explain how bread dough rises after adding baker’s yeast.
Yeast organisms eats sugars in the flour, and then releases carbon dioxide. The carbon
dioxide that formed made the bread dough rises. During baking, the carbon dioxide
expands which causes the bread to rise further.

2. Using the balanced equation for the fermentation reaction, calculate for the theoretical
amount of alcohol to be produced using 10 grams of sucrose. (Density of ethanol is 0.79
g/mL).

Balanced equation: C12H22O11 + H2O → 4 C2H5OH + 4 CO2

C2H5OH= 46.08 g/mol C12H22O11 = 342.34
C: 2×12.01 = 24.02 C: 12×12.01 = 144.12
H: 6×1.01 = 6.06 H: 22×1.01 = 22.22
O: 1×16.00 = 16.00 O: 11×16.00 = 176

1 mol C12H22O11
( ) ( 4 mol C2H5OH ) ( 48.08 g C2H5OH )
10 g C12H22O11 × 342.34 g C12H22O11 × 1 mol C12H22O11 × 1 mol C2H5OH
=
5.38 g C2H5OH

1 mL C2H5OH
 6.81 mL C H OH
5.38 g C2H5OH × 0.79 g C2H5OH
2 5

5.38 g C2H5OH or 6.81 mL C2H5OH is the theoretical amount of alcohol to be produced from
a 10 g of sucrose.
3. Complete the table.
This carbohydrate source… when fermented will produce…
1. grapes 1. wine
2. Industrial alcohol 2. White vinegar
3. Glucose 3. Lactic acid
4. Milk sugar 4. yogurt
5. Malted barley 5. beer
6. Table sugar 6. Ethyl alcohol

4. Give two applications of fractional distillation.

1. It is used for the purification of water as well as separating acetone and water

2. It is also used in several industries for purification and separation of many organic
compounds in oil refineries and chemical plants.

5. Explain the principle behind vacuum distillation.

It is like a normal distillation that permits either separation or purification of compounds,

however this time vacuum distillation works through enabling the compounds to boil at lower
temperature than normal when pressure is reduced. It is used when boiling point of
compound is too high but has to be distilled without significant thermal decomposition.

The number 6 is in the bottom. Please scroll down to find it.

 6. If you were in a town struck by severe calamity and drinking water is not yet available,
how will you obtain drinking water from flood water using the resources you have at home?
Draw and label a schematic diagram of your set-up.

Cut the bottom of Punch four to five Place cloth inside

Obtain a clean
the bottle, then turn five small holes in to act as a filter
plastic bottle
it upside down the bottle cap

Sterilize the water to Pour the contaminated Cover the top Add charcoal above the
kill the microbes, water slowly into filter with cloth cloth followed by a
then you can now in a clean jar layer of fine sand, a
drink the water. layer of course sand, a
layer of fine sand again,
and the final and the
top layer add a gravel