3.3. Overall conversion efficiencies of carbohydrates in CBG
To investigate the optimum conditions for the sodium hydroxide
pretreatment of CBG, overall conversion efficiencies of cellulose
and hemicellulose based on raw biomass need to be considered. It
was observed that, as shown in Fig. 1, pretreatment with NaOH of
1% and 2% yielded significantly higher total reducing sugars than