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Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 02, 2011
Applicants:

Thomas Henry Vanderspurt, Brick, NJ (US);

Timothy D. Davis, Portland, OR (US);

Sean C. Emerson, Broad Brook, CT (US);

Ying She, East Hartford, CT (US);

Rhonda R. Willigan, Manchester, CT (US);

Salvatore Saitta, Willington, CT (US);

Tianli Zhu, Cheshire, CT (US);

Inventors:

Thomas Henry Vanderspurt, Brick, NJ (US);

Timothy D. Davis, Portland, OR (US);

Sean C. Emerson, Broad Brook, CT (US);

Ying She, East Hartford, CT (US);

Rhonda R. Willigan, Manchester, CT (US);

Salvatore Saitta, Willington, CT (US);

Tianli Zhu, Cheshire, CT (US);

Assignee:

United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 1/00 (2006.01); C10L 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C10L 1/026 (2013.01); C07C 2101/14 (2013.01); C10G 2300/1014 (2013.01); C10G 2300/42 (2013.01); Y02E 50/13 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for processing biomass to produce biofuel includes decomposing lignocellulosic material into byproduct polymers that include lignin, decomposing the lignin into targeted chemical fragments, and chemically converting the targeted chemical fragments into a biofuel.


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