Table 2.

Product distribution from the pyrolysis of corncob and sugarcane bagasse with and without catalysts in Pyro-probe at 400 °C

	Corncob		Sugarcane bagasse
	YFurfural, %a	SFurfural, %b	YFurfural, %a	SFurfural, %b
Blank	2.8	6.0	5.2	10.6
ZnSO4c	8.9	15.9	13.0	27.2
Pd-PdO/ZnSO4, dry biomassc	9.6	16.1	17.6	30.8
Pd-PdO/ZnSO4, wet biomassc	32.9	58.8	18.3	32.5

^awt% based on dried biomass.

^barea% in GC-MS.

^cThe catalyst to biomass mass ratio was fixed at eight.