Table 5.
Sugar yield in WSF after steam explosion (expressed as kg/tonne raw biomass)
| Arabinose | Galactose | Glucose | Xylose | Mannose | Total sugars | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | % mona | Total | % mon | Total | % mon | Total | % mon | Total | % mon | Total | % mon | |
| NLC | 9.7 ± 0.3 | 100 | 8.5 ± 0.2 | 90 | 63.5 ± 2.5 | 78 | 96.0 ± 1.2 | 81 | 14.3 ± 1.1 | 79 | 192.1 ± 0.1 | 82 |
| WTC | 9.1 ± 1.2 | 100 | 7.5 ± 0.7 | 71 | 39.2 ± 4.1 | 64 | 45.5 ± 2.4 | 71 | 7.0 ± 0.3 | 65 | 108.3 ± 0.3 | 70 |
| LC | 7.6 ± 0.2 | 60 | 5.6 ± 0.8 | 23 | 15.8 ± 2.1 | 41 | 6.9 ± 1.2 | 10 | 1.1 ± 0.1 | 33 | 37.0 ± 0.2 | 36 |
| WWF | 2.9 ± 0.2 | 93 | 5.4 ± 0.4 | 79 | 62.9 ± 0.7 | 76 | 122.2 ± 8.9 | 87 | 16.8 ± 1.0 | 85 | 210.3 ± 0.5 | 83 |
± All data are represented as the mean of triplicate measurement
a“% mono” describes the percentage of soluble sugar presented in monomeric form