%0 Journal Article %T Waste Cashew Apple (<i>Anacardium occidentale</i>) as Feedstock for Simultaneous Production of Two Main Ecofriendly Fuels %A Delphine N’guessan %A Mica？l Bedikou %A Verdier Abouo %A Lamine Samagaci %A Charlotte Ehon %A Camara Yacouba %A Eric Akpa %J Journal of Power and Energy Engineering %P 16-31 %@ 2327-5901 %D 2023 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/jpee.2023.118002 %X The present work investigated an effective low-cost production of bioethanol by the use of rejected cashew apples (CAs) in Ivorian plantations. Fresh CAs were cut into 8-10 mm slices and submitted to a drying cycle of two periods (for the sake of easing their rehydration) in an oven with forced air convection. Temperature was first set at 30˚C for 3 hours, and then raised at 50˚C until constant weight. Drying brought about 82% weight loss, and the dried slices were rehydrated in a ratio of 1:4 (w/v) in warm distilled water to reconstitute a 10 Brix degree (˚B) juice with 1.042 g/cm³ density. The sugar content of the juice was increased to 20˚B (syrup) by thermal evaporation. The process was optimized using a response surface methodology (RSM) by applying a central composite plan in order to minimize heat-sensitive compound degradation. The optimal operating conditions for temperature and time of heating were precisely 68,239˚C and 83,314 min, respectively. The commercial baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was used to seed the 20˚B cashew apple syrup following a batch fermentation at 30˚C. The total alcohol content recorded after 24 hours was 8.24