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Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering

University of Kentucky

2004

Biomass

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Effect Of Stover Fraction On Glucose Production Using Enzymatic Hydrolysis, Czarena L. Crofcheck, Michael D. Montross May 2004

Effect Of Stover Fraction On Glucose Production Using Enzymatic Hydrolysis, Czarena L. Crofcheck, Michael D. Montross

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications

Corn stover was fractionated into three fractions: cobs, stalks, and leaves and husks. The fractions were dried and ground through a 2 mm screen. Samples of the three fractions and whole corn stover with and without NaOH pretreatment were subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis in order to determine the effect of fractionation on glucose production. The average amounts of glucose released after 60 h of hydrolysis from pretreated cobs, leaves and husks, stalks, and whole stover were 0.50, 0.36, 0.28, and 0.36 g/g dry biomass, respectively. The average amounts of glucose released after 60 h of hydrolysis from nonpretreated cobs, leaves …