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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1998
Filed:
May. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Byung J Kim, Champaign, IL (US);
Hsin-Neng Hsieh, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Fong-Jung Tai, Livingston, NJ (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A62D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
588203 ; 588204 ; 149124 ; 204530 ; 204531 ; 204632 ; 435161 ; 435162 ; 435165 ;
Abstract
A method for treating waste nitrocellulose, the method comprising the steps f treating nitrocellulose with acid in a hydrolysis process to break the nitrocellulose down to glucose, recovering a majority of the acid by electrodialysis, neutralizing a remainder of the acid, and fermenting the glucose to convert the glucose to a useful product. The invention further comprises a system for performing the above method.