3029 results about "Xylose" patented technology

Lignin polymers having distinctive properties, including a generally high molecular weight and generally homogeneous size distribution, as well as preservation of native reactive side groups, are isolated by solvent extraction of plant materials. Methods for isolation of lignin polymers, and for use of the isolated lignin polymers are disclosed. Compositions containing lignin isolated from plant materials, such as carbon fiber composites, resins, adhesive binders and coatings, polyurethane-based foams, rubbers and elastomers, plastics, films, paints, nutritional supplements, food and beverage additives are disclosed. Xylose and xylose derivatives, furfural, fermentable sugars, cellulose and hemi-cellulose products may be used directly or further processed. The lignin polymers and other plant-derived products disclosed herein may be produced in abundance at low cost, and may be used as substitutes for feedstocks originating from fossil fuel or petrochemical sources in the manufacture of various products.

Methods of making glucose and/or furfural from biomass require one or more supercritical fluids that may be used to process biomass, cellulose from the biomass, and/or xylose from the biomass. Examples of supercritical fluids for use in processing biomass include ethanol, water, and carbon dioxide at a temperature and pressure above the critical points for ethanol and carbon dioxide but at a temperature and/or pressure below that of the critical point for water. A supercritical fluid containing carbon dioxide and water may be used to convert cellulose to glucose or convert xylose to furfural. The fluid has a temperature and pressure above the critical point of carbon dioxide, but at least one of the temperature and pressure is below the critical point for water.

The present invention describes a process for at least a 90% conversion of a plant biomass preferably by a reduction of the units of cellulase needed and by using a xylanase which acts synergistically with the cellulase to improve the yield of xylose and glucose as sugars. The process enables greater conversion of a lignocellulosic plant biomass to glucose and xylose for use as animal feeds and as fermentation as medium for producing ethanol.

The invention discloses a comprehensive utilization process of wood cellulose, which comprises the processes of comprehensive treatment, oligosaccharide preparation, lignin preparation, fiber ethanol preparation and the like. The invention has the advantages of decomposing a biomass macromolecular natural compact structure by using a high-pressure instant steam exploding technology, being beneficial to the separation and the extraction of the lignin, the cellulose and the cellulose, reducing the consumption of the energy sources and the materials, such as acid, alkali, heat, catalyst and the like for preprocessing, reducing the emission of pollutants and lightening the pollution of the environment. Secondly, the cogeneration of oligosaccharide and lignin realizes the comprehensive utilization of the energy sources, especially the application of the steam exploding technology ensures that the quality of the two products of the oligosaccharide and the lignin is greatly improved and the yield is greatly increased; and alcohol and the lignin of production fuels of sugar residues can be extracted irrespective of the order.

The present invention provides thermosetting aqueous binder compositions of (i) one or more diprimary diamine, e.g. lysine, or poly(primary amine), e.g. polyethylenimine and tris(2-aminoethyl)amine, and (ii) one or more 5-carbon reducing sugar, such as xylose. The binders are at least substantially formaldehyde free and cure rapidly at temperatures sufficiently low and with sufficiently little swelling to enable one to provide wood or woody material containing articles, such as particle board, oriented strand board and bamboo boards or articles.

The invention relates to a method for preparing xylose by using squeezed waste alkali in the viscose fiber production process. According to the method, xylose finished products are obtained through work procedures of hemicellulose solution preparation, hemicellulose extraction, hemicellulose hydrolysis, neutralization and deacidification, preconcentration, decoloration, ion exchange, ordinary concentration, crystallization, separation and drying. When the technical scheme provided by the invention is adopted, harmful environment-pollution substances such as waste alkali and waste water generated in the viscose production process can be thoroughly eliminated, the standard of full-flow-process clean production can be reached, viscose production enterprises can also produce xylose in the viscose production process, the goal of environment protection is reached, and meanwhile, the waste reutilization is also realized.

Through screening of a Zymomonas mutant library the himA gene was found to be involved in the inhibitory effect of acetate on Zymomonas performance. Xylose-utilizing Zymomonas strains further engineered to reduce activity of the himA gene were found to have increased ethanol production in comparison to a parental strain, when cultured in mixed-sugars medium comprising xylose, and, in particular, in the presence of acetate.

The invention relates to a method for producing a wood sugar product and a byproduct of ethanol or D-ribose or citric acid. The method takes hydrolysis liquid, wood sugar mother liquor and/or production waste liquid containing pentose of agricultural or forestry waste as the raw materials, comprising the following steps: (a) preprocessing feed liquid; (b) colour spectrum separation: separating thefeed liquid into arabinose fraction feed liquid and wood sugar fraction feed liquid; (c) removing mixed sugar at least containing glucose and galactolipin; and (d) carrying out aftertreatment on thewood sugar fraction feed liquid to obtain the wood sugar product. The wood sugar product comprises xylitol and D-wood sugar. The invention has low production cost and high efficiency and is suitable for large-scale industrial production.

This invention provides methods for producing ethylene glycol from polyhydroxy compounds such as cellulose, starch, hemicellulose, glucose, sucrose, fructose, fructan, xylose and soluble xylooligosaccharides. The methods uses polyhydroxy compounds as the reactant, a composite catalyst having active components comprising one or more transition metals of Groups 8, 9, or 10, including iron, cobalt, nickel, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, iridium, and platinum, as well as tungsten oxide, tungsten sulfide, tungsten hydroxide, tungsten chloride, tungsten bronze oxide, tungsten acid, tungstate, metatungstate acid, metatungstate, paratungstate acid, paratungstate, peroxotungstic acid, pertungstate, heteropoly acid containing tungsten. Reacting at a temperature of 120-300° C. and a hydrogen pressure of 1-13 MPa under hydrothermal conditions to accomplish one-step catalytic conversion. It realizes efficient, highly selective, high yield preparation of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol from polyhydroxy compounds. The advantage of processes disclosed in this invention include renewable raw material and high atom economy. At the same time, compared with other technologies that converts biomass raw materials into polyols, methods disclosed herein enjoy advantages including simple reaction process, high yield of targeted products, as well as easy preparation and low cost for the catalysts.

The invention relates to a process for producing furfural from xylose comprising: (a) mixing an aqueous xylose solution containing xylose oligosaccharides with sub-critical or near-critical water to form a mixture at a first temperature and a first pressure; (b) maintaining the mixture at the first temperature and the first pressure for a first time period; and (c) rapidly cooling the mixture to a second temperature and a second pressure, wherein furfural is produced by the process (d) process can also be carried out with or without mixing of carbon dioxide with aqueous xylose solution before it is mixed with sub-critical or near-critical water to form a mixture at a first temperature and pressure.

The invention belongs to the biochemical industry field and particularly relates to a novel process for producing the polyatomic sugar alcohol and the lignin by comprehensively using agricultural and forestry wasters of corncobs. The process includes preprocessing raw materials by using a chemical or biological method, and producing a xylose hydrolysate in a high-temperature digesting or steam blasting mode to produce xylose products or xylitol products through a biological method. According to the process for producing the polyatomic sugar alcohol and the lignin by comprehensively using agricultural and forestry wasters of corncobs, ingredients of cellulose and lignin contained in the raw materials are fully used to develop and produce corresponding products.

Improved fermentation activity of microorganisms in a polysaccharide gel such as an alginate gel is obtained after dehydration, staorage and rehydration by soaking the gel containing the microorganisms prior to dehydration in a sugar solution to provide in the gel an amount of sugar of at least 100 g/kg and less than 500 g/kg of gel, preferably less than 300 g/k of gel. The dehydration may be carried out in a fluidized bed or by lyophilization. The gel may be in the form of beads or fibers having a double layer structure formed by an internal layer or core of gel containing the microorganisms and an external lay er or envelope of gel essentially devoid of the microoraganisms. The sugar is preferably xylose, glucose, fructose, lactose or sucrose, and the sugar solution may contain a polyol such as sorbitol, inositol or glycerol to provide in the gel an amount of polyol of at least 30 g/kg of gel. The sugar solution may also contain a non-ionic surfactant such as sorbitan monostearate as a protecting substance to fur ther improve fermentation activity. The microorganisms in the gel are preferably yeast, and after rehydration the yeast containing gel is used in producing a fermented drink such as in secondary fermentaion of wine to produce sparkling wine or champagne.

The ecological nutritive compound feed for meat chicken consists of corn, soybean dregs, corn protein powder, lysine, methionine, soybean oil, salt, sodium bicarbonate, stone powder, calcium biphosphate and other materials. It has the functions of promoting growth of meat chicken, raising immunity and raising disease resistance. The feed contains no antibiotic and has no drug residue.

Methods are disclosed for forming heptan-4-one, and, optionally, heptan-4-ol, from fermentable sugars. The sugars are fermented using a bacteria or yeast that predominantly forms butyric acid. The butyric acid is subjected to catalytic ketonization conditions to form heptan-4-one, with concomitant loss of water and carbon dioxide. The heptan-4-one can be subjected to catalytic hydrogenation to form heptan-4-ol, an either of these can be included in gasoline compositions. In one aspect, the fermentable sugars are derived from lignocellulosic materials such as wood products, switchgrass, or agricultural wastes, which are delignified to form lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. The cellulose and hemicellulose can be depolymerized to form glycose and xylose, either or both of which can be fermented by the bacteria. Thus, the methods described herein can convert biomass to a fuel composition or fuel additive, which can be used in a conventional gasoline engine, unlike traditional fuels such as ethanol or biodiesel.

The invention relates to a lignocellulose acid/alkali coupling pretreatment method. Lignocellulose is separated into cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin by acid/alkali coupling pretreatment; and simultaneously, lignocellulose components are separated and subjected to high-efficiency enzymolysis and saccharification. The method comprises the steps of lignocellulose pretreatment, component separation, cellulose enzymolysis, solvent recovery and the like. The lignocellulose material is pretreated by formic acid or dilute sulphuric acid and is then subjected to solid-liquid separation, wherein the liquid component is used for recovering hemicellulose hydrolyzed sugar and part of lignin; and the solid component is further treated by ammonia water or a sodium hydroxide solution and is then subjected to solid-liquid separation, the liquid component is used for recovering lignin, and the solid component (cellulose) is subjected to enzymolysis and saccharification. By converting the lignocellulose into cellulose hydrolyzed sugar (glucose), hemicellulose hydrolyzed sugar (xylose and xylooligosaccharide) and lignin, the invention provides a basis for full-biomass utilization and develops a green process route for recovering the pretreatment solvent.

The invention discloses a method for utilizing straw biomass by grades, comprising the following steps: carrying out steam explosion to straw biomass; extracting and separating water soluble constituents and water insoluble constituents in steam exploded straw by water, wherein the water soluble constituents are purified and concentrated to obtain active low polyxylose and xylose and the water insoluble constituents are used for further fermentation to generate ethanol; and extracting lignin from the fermentation residue. The invention realizes the maximization of utilization of biomass and overcomes the disadvantages of high production cost, low efficiency and environmental pollution and the like in the prior art.