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    • Holtzapple, Mark T.; Madison, Maxine Jones; Ramirez, Rocio Sierra; Deimund, Mark A.; Falls, Matthew; Dunkleman, John J. (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 2014-07-01)
      Methods and apparatus for treating biomass that may include introducing a biomass to a chamber; exposing the biomass in the chamber to a shock event to produce a shocked biomass; and transferring the shocked biomass from ...
    • Holtzapple, Mark T.; Davison, Richard R.; Nagwani, Murlidhar (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1997-12-02)
      Lignocellulose-containing materials are treated with lime (calcium hydroxide) and water at a relatively high temperature and for a certain period of time under certain conditions. The process variables were: lime loading ...
    • Yuan, Shuhua; Xie, Shangxian; Wang, Xin (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 12/6/2022)
      The present invention provides methods and compositions for increasing lignin degradation to produce a biological product. Also provided are methods for increasing expression of laccase in a bacterial species to produce ...
    • Holtzapple, Mark T.; Granda, Cesar B. (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 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 ...
    • Newell, Martha Karen (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 2018-08-07)
      Compositions and methods for enhancing secretion of oils from oil producing cells are described herein. In particular, secretion of oils is enhanced by treating the cells with herbicides. The oils generated according to ...
    • Holtzapple, Mark Thomas; Davison, Richard (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 2010-10-26)
      The disclosure includes a method, process and apparatus for the conversion of biomass to carboxylic acids and/or primary alcohols. The system may include a pretreatment/fermentation subsystem operable to produce a fermentation ...
    • Holtzapple, Mark Thomas; Davison, Richard (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 2012-02-28)
      The disclosure includes a method, process and apparatus for the conversion of biomass to carboxylic acids and/or primary alcohols. The system may include a pretreatment/fermentation subsystem operable to produce a fermentation ...
    • Holtzapple, Mark Thomas; Davison, Richard (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 2012-10-09)
      The disclosure includes a method, process and apparatus for the conversion of biomass to carboxylic acids and/or primary alcohols. The system may include a pretreatment/fermentation subsystem operable to produce a fermentation ...
    • Holtzapple, Mark T.; Davison, Richard R. (United States. Patent and Trademark Office; Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1999-02-02)
      The invention is directed to methods for the pretreatment of a lignocellulose-containing biomass. Pretreatment comprises the addition of calcium hydroxide and water to the biomass to form a mixture, and subjecting the ...