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

Table 2 Operating conditions ^a of disc refining

Plate gap (mm)	Throughput, ODMT/d	Energy consumption (kWh/ODMT)	Volume weighted mean particle size (μm)
1.78	32.0	128	302.9
1.02	31.3	212	260.4
0.56	26.2	317	220.6
0.25	22.8	408	245.8
0.00	17.3	468	198.1

^aFeed consistency and bulk density are 33.4% (w/w) and 104.7 dry kg/m³, respectively. The disc refiner was operated at 1200 rpm (revolutions per minute).

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