“…The proposed quadratic models in terms of actual variables are given below for glucose (Y G ), xylose (Y X ), and combined sugar (Y C ) recovery, where X 1 , X 2 , X 3 , and X 4 represent barrel temperature (°C), screw speed (rpm), alkali concentration (% w/v), and particle size (mm) of corn stover, respectively. Similar equations were reported for acid hydrolysis of sugarcane bagasse (Neureiter et al, 2002), oil palm empty fruit bunch (Rahman et al, 2007), eucalyptus (Canettieri et al, 2007), for concentrated acid pretreatment of pine wood (Miller & Hester, 2007 ), acid catalyzed fractionation and enzymatic hydrolysis of flax shives (Kim & Mazza, 2008), hot-compressed water pretreatment of Japanese beech hydrolysis (Xin & Saka, 2008), and extrusion pretreatment of corn stover (Karunanithy & Muthukumarappan, 2011a). Those equations predict the responses well with high R 2 and low probability values.…”