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Table 1 The liquor pH and the degraded products of polysaccharides from sweet sorghum stem during the hydrothermal pretreatment process

From: Systematic evaluation of the degraded products evolved from the hydrothermal pretreatment of sweet sorghum stems

Temperature (°C)-time (h)

Degraded products (g/L)

pH

Formic acid

Acetic acid

Levulinic acid

Lactic acid

HMF

Furfural

110-1.0

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

5.18

130-1.0

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

ND

4.50

150-1.0

1.10

0.38

0.52

ND

0.06

ND

3.78

170-0.5

0.85

0.48

0.74

0.28

0.12

0.18

3.65

170-1.0

1.96

0.63

1.39

0.37

0.21

0.85

3.48

170-2.0

2.26

1.01

2.26

0.73

0.32

2.11

3.30

190-0.5

2.56

1.26

2.43

1.65

0.38

3.32

3.22

210-0.5

3.16

1.64

2.95

2.20

1.23

3.50

3.18

230-0.5

3.76

4.03

3.65

2.41

2.27

4.53

3.13

  1. ND, not detectable. Data represented are the averages of the results obtained from the duplicated experiments.