Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120058526 | Methods and Systems for Processing Sugar Mixtures and Resultant Compositions - A method including: (a) selectively reacting a first sugar in a mixture which includes at least one second sugar to form a product mixture comprising a product of said first sugar; (b) separating said product of said first sugar from said product mixture; and (c) separating at least one of said at least one second sugar from said product mixture. | 03-08-2012 |
20120116063 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING LIGNOCELLULOSIC MATERIALS AND RELATED COMPOSITIONS - A method comprising: (a) providing a lignocellulosic substrate; (b) contacting said lignocellulosic substrate with an extractant comprising a water-soluble organic solvent to form an extracted substrate and a miscella; (c) removing miscella from said extracted substrate; and (d) hydrolyzing said extracted substrate using a chemically catalyzed process. | 05-10-2012 |
20120279497 | VISCOUS CARBOHYDRATE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - A viscous fluid comprising 2% wt to 25% wt water, at least 75% wt carbohydrate (calculated by 100×[carbohydrate/(carbohydrate weight+water weight)]), between 0% wt and 25% wt of a second organic solvent and between 10% wt and 55% wt HCl (calculated by 100×[HCl weight/HCl weight+water weight]), which second organic solvent is characterized by at least one of: (a2) having a polarity related component of Hoy's cohesion parameter between 0 and 15 MPa | 11-08-2012 |
20140171379 | LIGNIN COMPOSITIONS, METHODS OF PRODUCING THE COMPOSITIONS, METHODS OF USING LIGNIN COMPOSITIONS, AND PRODUCTS PRODUCED THEREBY - Lignin compositions, lignin particles, products containing them, viscous paste containing lignin, lignin formulations, spinning methods, fibers, products produced from the fibers, methods to produce processed products from lignin, methods to produce downstream products, manufacturing processes and related products are described. | 06-19-2014 |
20140175331 | Methods and Systems for Processing Sugar Mixtures and Resultant Compositions - A method including: (a) selectively reacting a first sugar in a mixture which includes at least one second sugar to form a product mixture comprising a product of said first sugar; (b) separating said product of said first sugar from said product mixture; and (c) separating at least one of said at least one second sugar from said product mixture. | 06-26-2014 |
20140190470 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING A SUCROSE CROP AND SUGAR MIXTURES - A method comprising: (a) providing a partially processed sucrose crop product containing at least 2% optionally at least 5% of the sucrose content of said crop at harvest on a dry solids basis, cellulose and lignin; (b) hydrolyzing said partially processed crop product with HCl to produce an acid hydrolyzate stream and a lignin stream; and (c) de-acidifying said hydrolyzate stream to produce a de-acidified sugar solution and an HCl recovery stream. Additional, methods, systems and sugar mixtures are also disclosed. | 07-10-2014 |
20140202452 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUGAR REFINING - A method comprising: (a) extracting a sugar mixture in an aqueous solution of at least 30% HCL/[HCl+water] by weight with an extractant including an S1 solvent; (b) increasing a monomeric sugar to oligomeric sugar ratio in the mixture to produce a monomeric sugar enriched mixture comprising at least 65% monomeric sugars by weight relative to total sugars; and (c) separating an S1/HCl liquid phase comprising more than 30% HCl/[HCl+water] from said sugar mixture. | 07-24-2014 |
20140242867 | LIGNIN COMPOSITIONS, METHODS OF PRODUCING THE COMPOSITIONS, METHODS OF USING LIGNIN COMPOSITIONS, AND PRODUCTS PRODUCED THEREBY - Lignin compositions, products produced from them or containing them, methods to produce them, spinning methods, methods to convert lignin to a conversion product and conversion products produced by the methods are described. | 08-28-2014 |
20150020797 | SUGAR COMPOSITIONS - A sugar composition comprising at least 40% dissolved solids in an aqueous solution having a viscosity at least 10% lower than a 42 DE (Dextrose Equivalents) reference solution with a same dissolved solids concentration at a given temperature. Another sugar composition comprising at least 30% glucose relative to total sugars, at least 10% mannose relative to total sugars, at least 5% xylose relative to total sugars, and less than 0.25% ash. Another sugar composition comprising at least 30% glucose relative to total sugars at least 10% mannose relative to total sugars, at least 5% xylose relative to total sugars, and at least 2% total furfurals. | 01-22-2015 |
20150048274 | SUGAR COMPOSITIONS - A sugar composition comprising at least 40% dissolved solids in an aqueous solution having a viscosity at least 10% lower than a 42 DE (Dextrose Equivalents) reference solution with a same dissolved solids concentration at a given temperature. Another sugar composition comprising at least 30% glucose relative to total sugars, at least 10% mannose relative to total sugars, at least 5% xylose relative to total sugars, and less than 0.25% ash. Another sugar composition comprising at least 30% glucose relative to total sugars at least 10% mannose relative to total sugars, at least 5% xylose relative to total sugars, and at least 2% total furfurals. | 02-19-2015 |