@article{445,
author = "Wayne W. Fish",
abstract = "About 20% of the annual U.S. watermelon crop is rejected for the fresh fruit market because of surface blemishes or atypical shape.  This unrealized income after production cost investment amounted to ~$88 million dollars for the 2010 growing season.  Watermelon is a rich source of two health-promoting nutraceuticals, lycopene and L-citrulline, as well as containing up to 10% fermentable free sugars.  Scalable processes for production of each of the nutraceuticals were integrated together with a fermentation process to convert watermelon sugars to ethanol.  Four hundred kg of watermelons carried through the three integrated processes yielded an equivalent of 31g lycopene/tonne (~95% recovery), 1.85  kg citrulline/tonne (~80% recovery), and 30L ethanol/tonne (~85% recovery).  Use of these integrated processes or selected processes used individually or in combination may afford watermelon growers and packers the opportunity to recuperate part of their crop losses.",
journal = "IJAIR",
keywords = "Ethanol Biofuel; L-Citrulline; Lycopene; Watermelon",
month = "January",
number = "4",
pages = "581-586",
title = "{I}ntegration of {T}hree {P}rocesses for {P}roduction of {T}wo {N}utraceuticals and {E}thanol {B}iofuel from {C}ull {W}atermelons",
volume = "2",
year = "2014",
}