purpose, reinforcing the general knowledge that this is an essential step for increasing the ethanol yield of steam-exploded materials. Although the production of cellulosic ethanol from elephant grass was demonstrated in this work, the yields were yet too low to be competitive. For this reason, it will be necessary to perform enzymatic hydrolysis at higher total solids of around 20 wt% in order to increase the availability of fermentable sugars, so that the ethanol distillation at the end would be made feasible