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Table 1 Solid and sugar yields of pretreated corn stover at different pretreatment conditions

From: Alkaline twin-screw extrusion pretreatment for fermentable sugar production

Pretreatment conditions

 

Sugar yieldb(%)

NaOH loading (g/g biomass)

Preservation time (hour)

Solid yielda

Glucose

Xylose

Total sugar

0.04

0

77.3

33.6

13.3

26.4

1

73.8

41.7

22.8

35.0

2

72.2

42.1

22.0

35.0

3

72.1

41.7

25.8

36.1

10

70.0

41.2

36.2

39.5

0.06

0

70.2

57.3

45.5

53.1

1

65.8

82.0

69.4

77.6

2

63.0

79.8

68.8

75.9

3

62.8

85.1

69.7

79.7

10

62.2

86.2

69.2

80.2

0.08

0

61.7

75.4

58.0

69.3

1

59.2

85.0

63.8

77.5

2

57.8

84.7

65.7

78.0

3

57.4

85.5

62.9

77.5

10

57.0

86.6

63.4

78.4

0.1

0

54.8

79.6

49.7

69.1

1

53.5

85.5

51.4

73.4

2

53.1

83.4

50.8

71.9

3

52.5

83.1

49.6

71.3

10

52.2

84.7

47.1

71.4

  1. a solid yield = (Pretreated biomass (g)/Original biomass (g)) × 100; b glucose yields% = M glucose in enzymatic hydrolyzate × 0.9/M glucan in original biomass, xylose yields% = M xylose in enzymatic hydrolyzate × 0.88/M xylan in original biomass, total sugar yield% = (M glucose in enzymatic hydrolyzate × 0.9+ M xylose in enzymatic hydrolyzate × 0.88)/( M glucan in original biomass + M xylan in original biomass). M is the mass of sugar (g). Data represented are the averages of the results from duplicated experiments.