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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2014
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Joseph Broun Powell, Houston, TX (US);
Molly Gilchrest, Houston, TX (US);
Lamar Lane Joffrion, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Kimberly Ann Johnson, Richmond, TX (US);
Thomas Lamar Flowers, Lumberton, TX (US);
Franklin Eugene Caputo, Houston, TX (US);
Todd Paul Peltier, Houston, TX (US);
SHELL OIL COMPANY, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Processing of a reaction product mixture of cellulosic biomass material containing at least one volatile organic compound at least one of lignin, a lignin-derived compound, unextracted cellulose, unextracted hemicellulose, a caramelan, and any combination thereof by vaporizing the at least one volatile organic compound using at least thermal energy generated by combusting at least a portion of the reaction product mixture. In a particular embodiment, the reaction product mixture comes from reactions involving deconstruction (or digestion) of cellulosic biomass which contains various polysaccharides (e.g., carbohydrates) and lignin.