Ethanol production at home?

Question

Anybody knows of supporter companies to fund my reasearches on garage
size reactors for home production of ethanol?
It looks interesting to produce fuel at home !
I have designed a small home reactor to produce ethanol by using
electricity and part of home garbage as raw material.
I need to find interested parties like municipalities of large cities
to fund the project to install thousands of these reactors at homes .

Answer 1

Home production of ethanol is pretty easy.
The easiest to find parent material is SUGAR, you dissolve it in water in such a ratio that can yield a concentration of 12% alcohol, when fermentation is completed. Once you have the syrup, you can mix with mashed fruit* about 5% in weight the amount of sugar, then you add 1% in weight of yeast (sacharomyces cerevisae), all this in a plastic container, which is abandoned well closed but not air tight, in order to allow CO2 to escape. After some 8 to 12 days depending on the amount of yeast.
When fermentation is complete, proceed to distill in a home made still (I assume that you know how a still is made). The first distillate has to be fractionated in successive redistillations until you get a concentration of 95%.
As for fueling a car you need "dry" ethanol, you have to eliminate the 5% water treating it with chemical dehydrating agents such as lime (CaO), but this process comes in the next chapter. (search in the net for "absolute alcohol" or "alcohol absolute")

*) The fruit is needed to provide a source of nitrogen to feed the yeast and allow to reproduce it.

DISCLAIMER: The information above is given for a homework, and is not intended otherwise i.e. for an actual elaboration of ethanol, and make clear herewith that the product in mention has special regulations, as government's controlled substances.