Michigan State University

Michigan Biotechnology Institute

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Montana State University

The Michigan Biotechnology Institute D/b/a Mbi

Bryan Bals

Bruce E Dale

Farzaneh Teymouri

Shannon S Stahl

Timothy J Campbell

Eric Linke Hegg

David B Hodge

Zhaoyang Yuan

Tim Campbell

An improved alkaline pretreatment of biomass is provided that is a single-stage, two oxidant alkaline oxidative pretreatment process. The process uses a homogenous catalyst with at least two oxidants (Hydrogen peroxide and enhanced levels of oxygen) in an alkaline environment to catalytically pretreat lignocellulosic biomass in a single-stage oxidation reaction. The provided single-stage alkaline-oxidative pretreatment improves biomass pretreatment and increase enzymatic digestibility to improve the economic feasibility of production of lignocellulose derived sugars.

Economical methods for performing oxidative catalytic pretreatment of plant biomass using a single-stage two oxidant process

A method is provided in which pretreated and densified cellulosic biomass particulates can be hydrolyzed at a high solids loading rate as compared with the solids loading rate of loose hydrolysable cellulosic biomass fibers. The resulting high concentration sugar-containing stream can be easily converted to biofuels or to an entire suite of other useful bioproducts.

Methods of hydrolyzing pretreated densified biomass particulates and systems related thereto

A method is provided in which pretreated and densified cellulosic biomass particulates can be hydrolyzed at a high solids loading rate as compared with the solids loading rate of loose hydrolysable cellulosic biomass fibers. The resulting high concentration sugar-containing stream can be easily converted to biofuels or an entire suite of other useful bioproducts.

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East Lansing, MI, United States of America

Bryan Bals