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Table 1 Chemical composition of SCB before and after GL–Ethanol pretreatment

From: Enhancement of ethanol production from green liquor–ethanol-pretreated sugarcane bagasse by glucose–xylose cofermentation at high solid loadings with mixed Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains

Green liquor (mL/g-DS)

Composition (%)

Solid yield (%)

Glucan

Xylan

Klason lignin

Ash

 

Untreated

46.97 ± 0.17

22.44 ± 0.19

19.48 ± 0.13

1.53 ± 0.13

100

0.8

58.52 ± 0.21

26.77 ± 0.16

8.64 ± 0.42

1.11 ± 0.41

78.97 ± 0.30

1.0

61.74 ± 0.15

28.58 ± 0.01

6.77 ± 1.13

1.59 ± 0.20

75.50 ± 0.40

1.5

61.80 ± 0.49

28.59 ± 0.19

5.03 ± 0.07

1.25 ± 0.19

73.90 ± 0.30

  1. All values are based on the oven-dried weight of samples
  2. SCB sugarcane bagasse, GL Ethanol GL combined with ethanol, DS dry substrate