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Table 2 Estimated parameters for substrate-enzyme diffusion-limited kinetic model for UTRS and AFEX pretreated rice straw at different particle size and glucan loading

From: Performance of AFEX™ pretreated rice straw as source of fermentable sugars: the influence of particle size

Substrate size

1% Glucan loading

3% Glucan loading

Diffusion-limited kinetic

Equilibrium sugar concentrations, P e at t = 168 h

Diffusion-limited kinetic

Equilibrium sugar concentrations, P e at t = 168 h

 

k(L/g.h)

n

R2(%)

Glucose (g/L)

Xylose (g/L)

k(L/g.h)

n

R2(%)

Glucose (g/L)

Xylose (g/L)

UTRS – 2 mm

0.0475

0.293

98.5

2.9

0.6

-

-

-

-

-

UTRS – 5 cm

0.0309

0.285

99.0

2.7

0.5

-

-

-

-

-

AC1RS – 2 mm

0.0998

0.296

99.3

8.1

3.7

0.0300

0.364

99.2

24.4

9.9

AC1RS – 5 mm

0.1003

0.320

99.4

7.5

3.1

0.0286

0.340

99.5

21.8

8.7

AC1RS – 2 cm

0.1078

0.440

99.4

7.6

2.8

0.0288

0.444

99.2

22.0

8.2

AC1RS – 5 cm

0.0929

0.456

97.3

6.7

2.3

0.0282

0.509

99.5

19.9

7.0

AC2RS – 2 mm

0.0958

0.294

99.9

8.6

4.1

0.0184

0.397

98.9

22.1

10.1

AC2RS – 5 mm

0.1216

0.322

99.1

7.9

3.5

0.0182

0.381

98.0

20.3

8.6

AC2RS – 2 cm

0.1412

0.438

98.6

9.1

4.0

0.0323

0.528

99.5

27.0

10.6

AC2RS – 5 cm

0.1598

0.522

98.7

10.0

4.3

0.0345

0.616

98.4

29.4

11.4