Anellotech, Inc.

Eugene Schmelzer

Terry Joseph Mazanec

Ruozhi Song

Yu-Ting Cheng

Fred A Pesa

Dennis McCullough

Benjamin Amblard

Charles Sorensen

Charles Mitchel Sorensen

Sina Tebianian

Michael Tanzio

Raghava Dasarathy

Frédéric Jean-Michel Feugnet

Thierry Albert Pierre Gauthier

Benjamin Thomas Amblard

An improved process is provided for catalytic pyrolysis of biomass, comprising pneumatically injecting a biomass feed via a pneumatic injection line into a fluidized heat medium, for example, hot catalyst, with a carrier gas at a velocity of from 5 to 40 m/s in at least one mixing zone in communication with a pyrolysis reactor in which catalytic pyrolysis occurs, and maintaining a catalyst/biomass mixture flowrate ratio (C/B) of from 4 to 40 downstream from the point of catalyst injection via a catalyst injection line in the at least one mixing zone.

Biomass injection into fluid bed catalytic pyrolysis reactor

In this invention, a portion of the products from a pyrolysis reactor are reacted in a process to form one or more chemical intermediates.

Chemical intermediates by catalytic fast pyrolysis process

The present invention provides an improved process for recovering CO from a catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) process product effluent. The process comprises the steps of: a) providing a first vapor phase stream resulting from a CFP process comprising, on a water-free and solids-free basis, from 25 to 80% CO and at least 15% CO, b) mixing the first vapor phase stream of step a) with a particular solvent to make a mixed phase stream, c) separating the mixed phase stream of step b) into a second vapor phase stream comprising CO and a liquid phase stream, and d) recovering a product stream from the second vapor phase stream of step c) having a higher concentration of CO and a lower concentration of COthan the first vapor phase stream of step a).

Process for recovering carbon monoxide from catalytic fast pyrolysis product

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Eugene Schmelzer