Resumen de: US20260028649A1
Described herein are recombinant fermenting organisms having a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a phospholipase. Also described are processes for producing a fermentation product, such as ethanol, from starch or cellulosic-containing material with the recombinant fermenting organisms.
Resumen de: EP4685332A2
This disclosure relates to a method and a system for sequestering carbon-containing materials in underground wells. An example method includes: obtaining a material comprising a carbon-containing liquid; optionally testing the material for compatibility with an underground well; optionally adjusting a property of the material to improve the compatibility; and providing the material for injection into the underground well.
Resumen de: EP4685209A2
Described herein are methods, and compositions for use in the coloration of materials. The compositions described herein are black pigments derived primarily from recently-living plants or animals and are therefore renewable.
Resumen de: EP4685458A2
Method and control system are provided for controlling values of process parameters of a pretreatment process of wood particles. A sampler is used to obtain a sample of a product flow of said pretreatment process after said wood particles have undergone steam explosion in a hemihydrolysis reactor. A particle measurement device is used to measure one or more characteristics of particles in said sample and to produce one or more pieces of measurement information indicative of the measured characteristics. Said one or more pieces of measurement information are used to select one or more values of one or more of said process parameters.
Resumen de: WO2024192501A1
It is provided a fractionation process of a lignocellulosic biomass feedstock producing biogenic carbon products comprising impregnating the lignocellulosic biomass feedstock with water producing an impregnated wet solid fraction after draining the liquid; raising the temperature of the impregnated wet solid fraction by adding steam producing steamed wet solids; adding water to said steamed wet solids to a ratio of liquid to solids below 16 obtaining a mixture of liquid and steamed wet solids; filtering the mixture of liquid and steamed wet solids producing an hydrolysate fraction and a wet solid fraction; concentrating the hydrolysate fraction to obtain a concentrated sugar solution which can be converted into humins; drying the wet solid fraction and mixing the dried wet solid fraction in an ethanol solution containing a mineral acid producing a slurry; heating the slurry and filtering the heated slurry producing a liquid phase, a solid cake containing lignin oligomers convertible into biofuels and an acid-impregnated cellulose-rich residue.
Resumen de: WO2024211096A2
A method for making transient plastic phase biochar from various biomass feedstocks includes receiving a biomass feedstock at a pyrolysis chamber, providing an inert gas or air environment to the pyrolysis chamber, and pyrolyzing the biomass feedstock in the pyrolysis chamber at a pressure above 1500 psi and a temperature range of 290 - 350 °C to generate the transient plastic phase biochar. The method may further include making a transient plastic phase biocarbon by grinding the transient plastic phase biochar into a powder, compressing the powder into a pellet, and devolatilized the pellet in an inert environment at atmospheric pressure at a temperature range of 300 - 1200 °C for 1 hour at a heating rate of 3-10 °C/min produce transient plastic phase biocarbon.
Resumen de: US20260022299A1
The present technology relates to biofuels, and more particularly, to biomass-based diesel from olefin oligomers. Diesel fuels with cetane number of 49 or greater are prepared by blending hydrocarbons produced by olefin oligomerization with renewable diesel, resulting in a blended fuel that has a lower cloud point than the cloud point of the renewable diesel. A different aspect relates to an integrated process for lipid HDO and olefin oligomerization wherein the propane coproduct of lipid HDO is subjected to dehydrogenation to produce a vapor stream having propylene and hydrogen. The propylene is subsequently oligomerized to iso-olefins and the iso-olefins are combined with the lipid feed for hydrogenation in the HDO reactor.
Resumen de: AU2024298670A1
The present invention provides a method for producing a biofuel, the method including: (a) a tamanu oil purification step which comprises a deoxidization step for deoxidizing a crude oil of a tamanu oil, wherein the absorbance of the refined tamanu oil at the wavelength of 330 nm is 0.08 or less; and (b) a methyl esterification step in which methanol is added to the refined tamanu oil so as to produce a fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) by a transesterification reaction. The present invention also provides a method for improving the methyl esterification efficiency of a tamanu oil.
Resumen de: AU2025287279A1
The present invention relates to methods of mashing 100% adjunct grists. More specifically, the instant disclosure provides methods and compositions wherein an alpha- amylase in combination with an maltogenic alpha amylase and/or glucoamylse to make a non-malt wort composed by adjunct raw materials. ec e c
Resumen de: US20260022088A1
The present invention relates to a method for thermolytic fragmentation of a sugar into C1-C3 oxygenates, comprising cooling the fragmentation product downstream of the reactor to a cooling temperature of from 230° C. to 390° C. and then separating solids from the fragmentation product cooled to the cooling temperature. The present invention also relates to a system for performing the thermolytic fragmentation of a sugar into C1-C3 oxygenates. The method and the system are suitable for industrial scale production.
Resumen de: US2025388937A1
Disclosed is a carbon neutral, zero net energy process, system, and plant for converting lower linear and branched mono-olefins, derived from C2-C5 bio-based alcohols to higher hydrocarbons, to one or more C8-C24 hydrocarbons. Also disclosed are a carbon neutral, zero net energy process for oligomerization of branched and/or linear C3-C8 olefins to renewable diesel fuel and/or jet fuel.
Resumen de: WO2024194221A1
Disclosed is a method of lipid extraction for biofuel production comprising treating an ethanol-biomass mixture with ozone and/or at least one protease, followed by extraction of the ethanol fraction with an immiscible organic solvent. Also disclosed is a process for biofuel production comprising culturing psychrophilic and alkaliphilic microalgae, harvesting the microalgae and extracting lipids from the harvested cells. Also disclosed is lipid biofuel from microalgae, characterized by reduced chlorophyll content.
Resumen de: US2025388828A1
Disclosed are systems, methods, and compositions for producing renewable alcohols, conversion of C1-C5 alcohols to a mixture of C2-C7 olefins to generate stream for recycle to the alcohol conversion step to create or separate oligomerization conversion to generate a predominantly C4+ stream, oligomerizing stream into fuel range olefins to create a stream, separating stream into fractions appropriate for use as gasoline, jet, and diesel fuels. The disclosure also provides systems, methods, and compositions of bio-based ethanol that can be converted to ethylene and subsequently to mixtures of C3-C8 olefins in a single-step.
Resumen de: WO2024189621A1
The disclosure concerns processes and systems for the manufacture of biodiesel from fats sources, specifically enzymatic processes for manufacturing biodiesel from waste matter rich in free fatty acids (FFA). The disclosure provides processes with improved efficiency of transforming fat from various sources into biodiesel and a reactor designed for such processes.
Resumen de: US20260015638A1
The invention relates, in general, to methods of processing Lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars and to methods that rely on hydrothermal pretreatment. Xylose monomer yields comparable to those achieved using two-stage pretreatments can be achieved from soft Lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks by pretreasting to very low severity in a single-stage pressurized hydrothermal pretreatment, followed by enzymatic hydrolysis to release xylose retained in the solid state. In some embodiments, pretreated biomass is separated into a solid fraction and a liquid fraction, the solid fraction subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis, and the separated liquid fraction subsequently mixed with the hydrolysed solid fraction.
Resumen de: US20260015508A1
Disclosed is a method for producing a carbon black pigment from a microbial biomass. In certain aspects, the method involves providing a microbial biomass solution with a plurality microbial cells in an aqueous solvent; nucleating the plurality of microbial cells by adding a first soluble ion to the microbial biomass solution; initiating crystal formation in and/or on the plurality of microbial cells by adding a second soluble ion to the microbial biomass solution, forming a plurality of crystal encrusted microbial cells, where the charge of the first soluble ion is the opposite of the charge of the second soluble ion and where the crystals are formed from precipitation of the first and second ions; and performing thermal processing of the plurality of crystal encrusted microbial cells to form a charred biomass; washing the charred biomass to form a microbechar.
Resumen de: CA3210900A1
A process to obtain glucose from a pretreated lignocellulosic biomass, said process comprising the steps of: providing a lignocellulosic biomass; contacting said lignocellulosic biomass to a modified Caro’s acid composition for a period of time necessary to remove more than 98.5 % of the lignin present in said lignocellulosic biomass and thus obtaining a solid stream and a liquid stream; exposing said solid stream to an enzyme blend to produce a hydrolysate comprising sugars obtained from the hydrolysis of cellulose and hemicellulose; and optionally, fermenting said hydrolysate to produce value-added products.
Resumen de: EP4678719A1
A system includes a gas turbine system having a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine, wherein the combustor is configured to combust fuel and oxidant in a substantially stoichiometric equivalence ratio, phi (ϕ), of between 0.95 to 1.05. The system further includes an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system configured to recirculate an exhaust gas from the turbine to an intake into the compressor. The system further includes a biochar pyrolysis reactor configured to heat a biomass feedstock to cause a pyrolysis reaction of the biomass feedstock using heat from the exhaust gas to generate a biochar and a syngas.
Resumen de: WO2026007298A1
Provided are a device for catalytic separation reaction of biodiesel and a use method therefor. The device for catalytic separation reaction of biodiesel comprises: a reactor (1), a bottom surface of which is provided with a discharge pipe (39); a carbon film (2) arranged inside the reactor (1) and used for the permeation of fatty acid methyl esters and glycerol; and a rotating hole (3) formed on the top surface of the reactor (1), wherein a stirring column (5) is movably mounted inside the rotating hole (3), a plurality of stirring rods (6) are arranged outside the stirring column (5), and two limiting grooves (34) are formed on the outer cylindrical surface of a rotating shaft (4). The rotating shaft (4) drives a reciprocating screw rod (18) to rotate, driving a piston plate (19) to compress the air; and the compressive force on piston blocks (14) in the stirring rods (6) gradually increases, driving scrapers (16) to slowly move outward so as to gradually scrap off the fatty acid methyl esters and glycerol by layer from the inner wall of the reactor, thereby achieving a better scraping effect and enhancing the oil yield from the reaction of feedstock oil.
Resumen de: US20260008977A1
A method for pretreating and purifying crude bio-feedstocks intended for processes of transformation into biofuels is described, the method being characterized in that the crude bio-feedstock is subjected, in the form of an aqueous emulsion to a heat treatment by passing it through a coil visbreaker furnace at a temperature greater than 100° C. and a pressure greater than 3 barg, possibly in an inert atmosphere, for a pre-established contact/residence time, the effluent exiting the reactor being subsequently subjected to at least a non-absorbent physical separation to separate the bio-feedstock from metal contaminants and phosphorus.
Resumen de: US20260009178A1
Some variations provide a process for impregnating a biomass feedstock with a reaction solution, comprising: providing a biomass feedstock that contains non-condensable gases within biomass pores; introducing a condensable vapor into the biomass pores to remove non-condensable gases out of the biomass pores, thereby generating an intermediate biomass material, wherein at least a portion of the condensable vapor remains within the biomass pores; exposing the intermediate biomass material to a liquid solution to infiltrate the liquid solution into the biomass pores and condense the vapor to form a condensed liquid contained within the biomass pores, thereby generating an impregnated biomass material containing a reaction solution; and recovering or further processing the impregnated biomass material. The non-condensable gases may be oxygen, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide, for example. The condensable vapor may be steam, for example. The reaction solution may contain a pretreatment chemical, such as a catalyst and/or a solvent.
Resumen de: US20260009044A1
The present invention relates to a yeast cell, in particular a recombinant yeast cell, the cell lacking enzymatic activity needed for the NADH-dependent glycerol synthesis or the cell having a reduced enzymatic activity with respect to the NADH-dependent glycerol synthesis compared to its corresponding wild-type yeast cell, the cell comprising one or more heterologous nucleic acid sequences encoding an NAD+-dependent acetylating acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.10) activity. The invention further relates to the use of a cell according to the invention in the preparation of ethanol.
Resumen de: US20260008973A1
An aviation fuel composition is disclosed, containing 50-95 vol-% of petroleum-derived jet fuel component, and 5-50 vol-% of renewable middle distillate component. The fuel composition has a viscosity of 12 mm2/s or below at −40° C., 10 mm2/s or below at −30° C., and 8 mm2/s or below at −20° C., as measured in accordance with an EN ISO 3104 (1996) standard. A method for producing the aviation fuel composition is also disclosed. The method containing mixing the petroleum derived jet fuel component and the renewable middle distillate component to obtain the aviation fuel composition, such that the petroleum-derived jet fuel component and the renewable middle distillate component are mixed together in an amount containing 5-50 vol-% of renewable middle distillate component and about 50-95 vol-% of petroleum-derived jet fuel component.
Resumen de: US20260008890A1
The current invention concerns composition comprising bitumen, one or more plasticity modifying agent(s), and lignin, as well as methods and uses related to such compositions. In particular, compositions are disclosed with improved properties, such as mixing properties.
Nº publicación: US20260008974A1 08/01/2026
Solicitante:
KORE INFRASTRUCTURE LLC [US]
KORE INFRASTRUCTURE, LLC
Resumen de: US20260008974A1
Described are technologies including methods and systems that can be used to produce carbon-neutral and/or carbon-negative renewable gaseous fuel from various organic wastes. In some implementations, such renewable fuel can be used in vehicles that transport the wastes from the waste generators to centralized waste disposal locations and/or manage the wastes at the waste disposal locations.