Pre-treatment by sodium hydroxide forhydrolysis of wheat straw and analysis of the product

The aim of this study was to explore main components of wheat straw and to get optimum pretreatment method.The wheat straw was pretreated with NaOH of different concentrations and the enzymatic products were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to get an optimum concentration.Analysis of cellulose and hemicelluloses content and the rate of hydrolysis were also carried out.The result showed that optimum concentration of NaOH pretreatment was 1%, and the content of cellulose and hemicelluloses were 44.13% and 21.34% respectively.Cellbiose was seen to be the main enzymatic product of wheat straw.Findings obtained in this study could be recommended as refenrence for the production of cello-oligaaccharides hydrolysis by wheat straw with enzyme.