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Table 3 Statistical analysis of the effects of pretreatment parameters on corn stover xylan recovery and delignification a

From: Understanding of alkaline pretreatment parameters for corn stover enzymatic saccharification

 

Xylan recovery

Lignin removal

R2

0.942

0.985

Prob. > F

< 0.0001*

< 0.0001*

Terms

Estimate

p value

Estimate

p value

NaOH loading

−2.922

< 0.0001*

8.730

< 0.0001*

Temperature

−0.002

< 0.0001*

0.003

< 0.0001*

Time

−0.0003

0.015*

0.001

< 0.0001*

NaOH loading × temperature

0.028

0.027*

0.053

0.003*

NaOH loading × time

0.008

0.374

−0.014

0.272

Temperature × time

−9.09 × e-6

0.258

−1.376 × e-5

0.208

NaOH loading × NaOH loading

31.764

0.0218*

−137.865

< 0.0001*

Temperature × temperature

−1.62 × e-6

0.865

−8.50 × e-5

< 0.0001*

Time × time

8.93 × e-6

0.133

−3.325 × e-5

< 0.0003*

  1. a Numbers with asterisk indicate that the term has a significant effect at 95 % confidence interval.