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Integrated biofuel production system
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2012-04-10)
According to an embodiment, a biomass conversion subsystem produces methane and/or alcohol and residual biomass. A pyrolysis or a gasification subsystem is used to produce thermal energy and/or process gasses. The thermal ...
Method for heat recovery from pre-treated biomass
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2012-03-20)
According to one embodiment, a method for heat treatment of a biomass includes allowing biomass in a pretreatment reactor to undergo a pre-treatment reaction process. The pre-treatment reaction process yields pretreated ...
Alternative paths to alcohols and hydrocarbons from biomass
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2012-07-31)
A method of producing alcohols, hydrocarbons, or both from biomass by converting biomass into a carboxylic acid, reacting the carboxylic acid with an olefin to produce an ester and hydrogenolyzing the ester to produce ...