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Table 7 Chemical composition of the water insoluble component after the steam pretreatment at 200°C, 5 minutes 4% SO 2 (% dry weight of water insoluble solids)

From: How effective are traditional methods of compositional analysis in providing an accurate material balance for a range of softwood derived residues?

 

Arabinan

Galactan

Glucan

Xylan

Mannan

Lignin

Ash

Sum

BKLPP*

0.3 (0.0)**

0.4 (0.1)

51.7 (1.0)

1.0 (0.1)

1.7 (0.2)

39.8 (0.5)

0.3 (0.1)

95.2 (0.8)

IFS

0.4 (0.0)

0.7 (0.0)

45.2 (0.3)

2.3 (0.0)

2.3 (0.1)

39.8 (1.8)

0.5 (0.7)

93.9 (0.3)

LR

0.3 (0.0)

0.7 (0.0)

42.0 (0.5)

1.2 (0.0)

1.8 (0.0)

45.4 (1.4)

0.6 (0.2)

95.4 (0.5)

HOG I

0.3 (0.0)

0.6 (0.1)

31.1 (0.9)

1.9 (0.1)

2.1 (0.1)

50.9 (1.1)

5.0 (0.0)

100.1 (0.9)

HOG II

0.1 (0.0)

0.4 (0.0)

42.7 (0.5)

1.7 (0.1)

2.6 (0.1)

42.5 (1.3)

1.5 (0.1)

99.7 (0.5)

BARK

2.6 (0.2)

1.4 (0.1)

22.4 (0.8)

1.4 (0.1)

0.9 (0.1)

58.5 (1.6)

1.9 (0.4)

89.1 (0.1)

  1. *The raw materials were ground to a particle size of ~2 mm and moisture content was adjusted to ~50% by wet weight of the sample prior to pretreatment.
  2. **Numbers in the bracket represent standard deviations of triplicate analysis.