Fractionated corn bran was processed to maximize ethanol production from starch, cellulose, and xylan. After various bench-scale experiments, an optimized process with dilute acid pretreatment (1.5 % w/w HSO) at 90 °C for 60 min was utilized followed by enzymatic hydrolysis using cellulase and hemicellulase for 48 hr.
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