Kior, Inc.

Jacobus Cornelius Rasser

Dennis N Stamires

Paul O'Connor

Michael F Brady

Robert Bartek

Steve Yanik

A process for producing fuel from biomass is disclosed herein. The process includes torrefying biomass material at a temperature between 80&#xb0; C. to 400&#xb0; C. to form particulated biomass having a mean average particle size between 1 &#x3bc;m and 1000 &#x3bc;m. The particulated biomass is mixed with a liquid hydrocarbon to form a suspension, wherein the suspension includes from 1 weight percent to 40 weight percent particulated biomass. The suspension is fed into a unit selected from the group consisting of a pyrolysis reactor, a fluid catalytic cracking unit, a delayed coker, a fluid coker, a hydroprocessing unit, and a hydrocracking unit, and then at least a portion of the particulated biomass of the suspension is converted into fuel.

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Redondo Beach, CA, United States of America

Jacobus Cornelius Rasser