United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

Ion Research, Inc.

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Paul J Weimer

Anthony B Kuhry

Albert Gordon Anderson

James M Odom

Frederick B Cooling, Iii

Linda F Lorenz

Anthony H Conner

Hydrocarbon and hydrogen fuels and other products may be produced by a process employing a combination of fermentation and electrochemical stages. In the process, a biomass contained within a fermentation medium is fermented with an inoculum comprising a mixed culture of microorganisms derived the rumen contents of a rumen-containing animal. This inoculated medium is incubated under anaerobic conditions and for a sufficient time to produce volatile fatty acids. The resultant volatile fatty acids are then subjected to electrolysis under conditions effective to convert said volatile fatty acids to hydrocarbons and hydrogen simultaneously. The process can convert a wide range of biomass materials to a wide range of volatile fatty acid chain lengths and can convert these into a wide range of biobased fuels and biobased products.

Biological/electrolytic conversion of biomass to hydrocarbons

A bioadhesive composition for bonding together adjacent surfaces of wood comprises a microbially-produced fermentation residue containing adherent microbial cells and glycocalyx. This residue finds particular application as a replacement for a significant amount of phenol-formaldehyde (PF) or other conventional adhesive component commonly used in the production of plywood and other wood products.

Wood adhesives containing solid residues of biomass fermentations

A process for inhibiting sulfide production by sulfate-reducing bacteria by contacting certain anthraquinones with the medium containing the sulfate-reducing bacteria is disclosed, as well as an automated screening test for such inhibition.

Anthraquinones as inhibitors of sulfide production from sulfate-reducing

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Madison, WI, United States of America

Paul J Weimer