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Sodium Hydroxide Pretreatment And Enzymatic Hydrolysis Of Coastal Bermuda Grass, Ziyu Wang, Deepak R. Keshwani, Arthur P. Redding, Jay J. Cheng

Biological Systems Engineering: Papers and Publications

Coastal Bermuda grass was pretreated with NaOH at concentrations from 0.5% to 3% (w/v) for a residence time from 15 to 90 min at 121 °C. The pretreatments were evaluated based on total lignin removal and production of total reducing sugars, glucose and xylose from enzymatic hydrolysis of the pretreated biomass. Up to 86% lignin removal was observed. The optimal NaOH pretreatment conditions at 121 °C for total reducing sugars production as well as glucose and xylose yields are 15 min and 0.75% NaOH. Under these optimal pretreatment conditions, total reducing sugars yield was about 71% of the theoretical maximum, …