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Table 1 Ethanol yield and fermentation efficiency for juice and extraction water (no replication conducted on these experiments)

From: Efficient extraction method to collect sugar from sweet sorghum

Juice used for fermentation

Sugar concentration (g/L)

Ethanol yield YE/S (g ethanol/g sugar)

Fermentation efficiency

Juice without filtration

94.7

0.428

83.8%

Juice filtered with Poly 2000

97.2

0.429

84.1%

Juice filtered with Poly 2004

95.9

0.433

84.9%

Juice filtered with Poly 2007

95.5

0.434

85.2%

Sugar extraction liquid

50.7

0.437

85.8%

  1. Note that the theoretical maximum ethanol production from sugar is a YE/S of 0.51.