System and process for biomass treatment

Dunson, Jr., James B; Tucker, III, Melvin P; Elander, Richard T; Lyons, Robert C

Title: System and process for biomass treatment

Patent · Tue Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2013

OSTI ID:1092752

Dunson, Jr., James B; Tucker, III, Melvin P; Elander, Richard T; Lyons, Robert C

A system including an apparatus is presented for treatment of biomass that allows successful biomass treatment at a high solids dry weight of biomass in the biomass mixture. The design of the system provides extensive distribution of a reactant by spreading the reactant over the biomass as the reactant is introduced through an injection lance, while the biomass is rotated using baffles. The apparatus system to provide extensive assimilation of the reactant into biomass using baffles to lift and drop the biomass, as well as attrition media which fall onto the biomass, to enhance the treatment process.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Assignee:: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company (Wilmington, DE); Alliance for Sustainable Energy LLC

Patent Number(s):: 8,512,979

Application Number:: 12/705,683

OSTI ID:: 1092752

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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