Table 5 Sugar yields from pretreated biomass
Sugar and yields on monomeric sugar basis | Softwood un-debarked loblolly pine chips (21A) | Hardwood debarked maple chips (22A) | Switchgrass Alamo variety (25A) |
|---|---|---|---|
Biomass amount (kg) | 3.00 | 3.00 | 2.17 |
Sugar from biomass (kg) | 1.73 | 1.96 | 1.24 |
Sugar in prehydrolysate (kg) | 0.26 | 0.35 | 0.14 |
Sugar from hydrolysate (kg) | 1.23 | 1.49 | 0.85 |
Total sugar yields (%) | 85.8 | 94.0 | 80.2 |