The invention relates to processes that efficiently convert carbon-containing materials, such as biomass, into products in such a manner that the energy, carbon, and mass content of the materials are efficiently transferred into such products. Such methods include converting the materials into at least one intermediate by a biological conversion process and at least one intermediate by a thermochemical conversion process and reacting the intermediates to form the product. Such methods have a chemical energy efficiency to produce the product that is greater than the chemical energy efficiency of a solely biological conversion process to produce the product and that is greater than the chemical energy efficiency of a process in which all of the material is initially subjected to a thermochemical conversion step as part of the process to produce the product.
申请公布号
WO2008098254(A3)
申请公布日期
2008.12.18
申请号
WO2008US53611
申请日期
2008.02.11
申请人
ZEACHEM, INC.;VERSER, DAN, W.;EGGEMAN, TIMOTHY, J.