E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Carl Eugene Camp

Bruce Aaron Diner

Thomas I Bair

Janine Fan

Jelena Cirakovic

John George Hnat, Jr

Mechanical milling of biomass as a pretreatment to render the biomass readily saccharifiable requires high energy input. Preceding mechanical milling by treatment with anhydrous ammonia was found to greatly reduce the energy requirement for fine milling, providing a more economical pretreatment process for commercial use.

Anhydrous ammonia treatment for improved milling of biomass

A process for reducing organic sulfur in a fluid, which comprises an organic sulfur compound, comprises contacting the fluid with an oxidizing agent to produce a pretreated fluid and contacting the pretreated fluid with an biologically active solid.

Organic sulfur reduction in wastewater

Highly porous, adsorbent biocatalyst beads of synthetic organic polymer have powdered activated carbon dispersed throughout the polymer and a biocatalyst, such as bacteria, located within macropores of the beads. The beads are used for remediation of contaminated aqueous streams. The biocatalyst can consume adsorbed organic contaminants and convert them into harmless gases, while continuously renewing the adsorptive capacity of the activated carbon.

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Wilmington, DE, United States of America

Carl Eugene Camp