A highly efficient dilute alkali deacetylation and mechanical (disc) refining process for the conversion of renewable biomass to lower cost sugars

Table 1 Compositional analysis (weight percent dry basis) of native and deacetylated corn stover

	Ash	Lignin	Glucan	Xylan	Galactan	Arabinan	Acetyl
Native corn stover	2.3(0.1)*	14.9(0.0)	36.4(0.0)	30.8(0.4)	1.8(0.0)	3.4(0.0)	2.7(0.2)
Deacetylated corn stover	0.6(0.2)	12.6(0.4)	43.6(0.1)	33.1(0.1)	1.4(0.0)	2.5(0.1)	0.3(0.2)

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