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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
May. 04, 2007
Applicants:
Paul O'connor, Hoevelaken, NL;
Dennis Stamires, Dana Point, CA (US);
Sjoerd Daamen, Barcelona, ES;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kior Inc., Pasadena, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to the conversion of solid biomass to liquid fuels and specialty chemicals. The process utilizes an activating step to make the biomass more susceptible to conversion, that is the biomass is broken down such that the components of the biomass are dissociated. Subsequently, the activated biomass undergoes a reaction to convert it to a bio-oil.