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Table 1 Composition of different fractions of bioethanol stillage [wet distillers’ grains (WDG); dried distillers’ grains with solubles (DDGS); dry matter (DM); rounded values]

From: Process options for the recovery of a pentosan-enriched fraction from wheat-based bioethanol thin stillage

Fraction

Substrate

DM

Pentosansa

References

%

%DM

Whole stillage

Corn

16

24

Flodman et al. (2012)

Wheat

22

26

Chatzifragkou and Charalampopoulos (2018)

Thin stillage

Corn

8

4

Kim et al. (2008)

Wheat

5 to 7

Kosik et al. (2017)

Mixed cereals

11 to 20

Lamp (2020)

WDG

Corn

35

21

Chatzifragkou and Charalampopoulos (2018)

Wheat

7 to 11

Kosik et al. (2017)

Wheat

33

28

Chatzifragkou and Charalampopoulos (2018)

DDGS

Corn

91

12

Pedersen et al. (2014)

Corn

89

14

Chatzifragkou and Charalampopoulos (2018)

Wheat

92

13

Pedersen et al. (2014)

Wheat

6 to 9

Kosik et al. (2017)

Wheat

97

25

Chatzifragkou and Charalampopoulos (2018)

  1. aThe terms pentosan, hemicellulose and (arabino-)xylan are used as synonyms here