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Fig. 3 | Biotechnology for Biofuels

Fig. 3

From: Ethanol production potential from AFEX™ and steam-exploded sugarcane residues for sugarcane biorefineries

Fig. 3

Glucose and xylose yields for high solids loading enzymatic hydrolysis of AFEX™, StEx (washed solids), StEx (unwashed solids), and StEx (whole slurry) treated sugarcane bagasse and CLM. Enzymatic hydrolysis was performed using optimized mixtures of CTec3, HTec3 and Pectinex Ultra-SP. The solids loading was maintained at 10% carbohydrate loading, pH 4.8 and incubated at 50 °C for 96 h. The glucose yields were calculated based on the weight of monomeric glucose recovered relative to the sum of the weight of the insoluble glucan and soluble G-OS content at the beginning of the enzymatic hydrolysis. Similarly, the xylose yields were calculated based on the weight of monomeric xylose recovered relative to the insoluble xylan and soluble X-OS. The combined glucose + xylose yields were calculated based on the sum of the monomeric glucose and xylose recovered relative to the sum of insoluble glucan, insoluble xylan, soluble G-OS and soluble X-OS

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