Evaluation of the Potential of Duckweed as a Human Food, Bioethanol Production Feedstock, and Antileukaemia Drug

Table 2

Separate hydrolysis and fermentation (SHF) of high-starch duckweed for ethanol production.

Biomass hydrolysis		Ethanol fermentation
Biomass input (g)	19.0	Ethanol content (g/g fermentation mash)	0.0363 ± 0.0000
Starch content (%)	50.8 ± 1.4	Total ethanol yield (g)	4.98 ± 0.05
Total glucose input (g)	10.62	Ethanol productivity (g/h)	0.208 ± 0.002
Weight of final fermentation mash (g)	137.21 ± 0.26	Ethanol fermentation efficiency (%)	91.82 ± 0.96
		YE/G (g/g glucose)	0.469 ± 0.005
		YE/B (g/g biomass)	0.262 ± 0.003