Table 3 Chemical and physical compositions of NLC, WTC, LC, and WWF
| Â | Physical composition (%) | Chemical composition (%) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Leaf | Bark | Branch | Chip | Arabinan | Galactan | Glucan | Xylan | Mannan | Total sugar | Total phenolics | Acetic acid | Ash | Extractives | |
NLC | 0 | 15 | 18 | 67 | 1.5 ± 0.1 | 1.3 ± 0.1 | 33.2 ± 0.5 | 11.9 ± 0.3 | 1.6 ± 0.1 | 49.5 ± 0.2 | 26.8 ± 1.0 | 4.3 ± 0.3 | 3.4 ± 0.0 | 16.7 ± 0.0 |
WTC | 37 | 9 | 12 | 42 | 2.1 ± 0.1 | 1.7 ± 0.1 | 26.9 ± 0.5 | 9.4 ± 0.3 | 1.2 ± 0.1 | 41.3 ± 0.2 | 32.1 ± 1.0 | 3.7 ± 0.1 | 5.5 ± 0.1 | 21.0 ± 0.6 |
LC | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.9 ± 0.1 | 2.3 ± 0.1 | 13.1 ± 0.6 | 3.9 ± 0.2 | 0.6 ± 0.0 | 22.7 ± 0.1 | 39.8 ± 0.1 | 2.6 ± 0.5 | 10.5 ± 0.1 | 27.6 ± 1.3 |
WWF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0.4 ± 0.0 | 0.4 ± 0.1 | 46.5 ± 0.9 | 13.1 ± 0.2 | 2.6 ± 0.1 | 63.1 ± 0.4 | 25.3 ± 0.2 | 1.2 ± 0.1 | 0.7 ± 0.1 | 5.2 ± 0.4 |