A method has been developed for ana lys is of wood sugars in samples from the pulp and paper industry. This high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method makes it possible to separate sugars using isocratic elution with water/methanol/ethyl formate. The separation of free glucose, mannose, galactose, arabinose and xylose present in quite unequal proportions in black liquor has been achieved. 


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