Table 4.

Compositional analysis of the residual acid-pretreated sugarcane bagasse after enzymatic saccharification with various cellulases at loading of 500 CMC’ase/g cellulose content and percentage cellulose hydrolysis as reflected by residual biomass composition

Cellulases	Initial biomass	Residual biomass	% Acid insoluble lignin including Ash	% Glucan in residual biomass	% Pentosan in residual biomass	% Glucan hydrolysed	% Saccharification in terms of glucose released**
Palkonol MBW	2.5 ± 0.10	2.20 ± 0.03	37.54 ± 0.91 (0.825 g)	61.4 ± 0.1 (1.349 g)	1.07 ± 0.25 (0.023 g)	11.66	11.7
SacchariSEB C6	2.5 ± 0.10	1.70 ± 0.02	50.06 ± 0.12 (0.850 g)	46.8 ± 0.6 (0.807 g)	1.98 ± 0.1 (0.033 g)	47.85	46.1
Cellic CTec2	2.5 ± 0.10	1.53 ± 0.03	57.66 ± 0.05 (0.883 g)	33.4 ± 0.5 (0.511 g)	2.4 ± 0.06 (0.034 g)	66.40	62.35
CFE UV-8 mutant	2.5 ± 0.10	1.642 ± 0.03	50.03 ± 0.05 (0.821 g)	49.62 ± 0.1 (0.814 g)	0.3 ± 0.0006 (0.004 g)	46.58	46.09

Note: The figures mentioned in the brackets represent the actual components in the residual biomass

**Denotes the percentage saccharification with respect to glucose released in saccharified broths