US Patent Issued to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING on July 15 for "Feed control in conversion of biomass into hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,228, issued on July 15, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).

"Feed control in conversion of biomass into hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals" was invented by Arsam Behkish (Flemington, N.J.), Giovanni Pilloni (Jersey City, N.J.) and Kelsey M. McNeely (Lambertville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to processes for producing hydrocarbon fuels from lignocellulosic biomass. A process may include introducing biomass to a pretreatment system, and a first separation system forming a pentose-rich stream and a pentose-lean stream. The pentose-lean stream may be introduce...