Patent · US10105652B2 · B2 · US
Array for processing materials
- (11) Publication number
- US10105652B2
- (21) Application number
- 15/616,507
- (22) Filing date
- 2017-06-07
- (30) Priority date
- 2013-03-08
- (43) Publication date
- 2018-10-23
- (45) Date of grant
- 2018-10-23
- (51) IPC
- B01D 15/02; B01D 53/32; B01D 61/44; B01J 19/08; B65G 27/00; B65G 53/04; B65G 53/40; C07C 29/149; C07C 31/12; C10G 1/00; C10L 1/02; C10L 9/08; C12M 1/00; C12P 19/02; C12P 19/14; C12P 7/04; C12P 7/06; C12P 7/10; C12P 7/52; C12P 7/56; C13K 1/02; C13K 13/00; D21C 9/00; E04B 1/92; G21F 7/00; G21K 5/04; H01J 37/317
- (52) CPC
- B01D Separation: 15/02, 53/02, 53/32, 53/46, 61/44, 61/445
- B01J Chemical or physical processes, e.g. catalysis or colloid chemistry; their relevant apparatus: 19/085, 2219/0869, 2219/0879, 2219/0886
- B65G Transport or storage devices, e.g. conveyors for loading or tipping, shop conveyor systems or pneumatic tube conveyors: 27/00, 53/04, 53/40
- C07C Acyclic or carbocyclic compounds: 29/149, 31/12
- C08B Polysaccharides; derivatives thereof: 1/00
- C10G Cracking hydrocarbon oils; production of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures, e.g. by destructive hydrogenation, oligomerisation, polymerisation; recovery of hydrocarbon oils from oil-shale, oil-sand, or gases; refining mixtures mainly consisting of hydrocarbons; reforming of naphtha; mineral waxes: 1/00
- C10L Fuels not otherwise provided for; natural gas; synthetic natural gas obtained by processes not covered by subclasses C10G or C10K; liquified petroleum gas; use of additives to fuels or fires; fire-lighters: 1/023, 1/026, 2200/0469, 2200/0476, 2290/36, 9/08
- C12M Apparatus for enzymology or microbiology; {apparatus for culturing microorganisms for producing biomass, for growing cells or for obtaining fermentation or metabolic products, i.e. bioreactors or fermenters}: 47/00, 47/10
- C12P Fermentation or enzyme-using processes to synthesise a desired chemical compound or composition or to separate optical isomers from a racemic mixture {}: 19/02, 19/14, 2201/00, 2203/00, 7/04, 7/06, 7/10, 7/52, 7/56
- C13K Saccharides obtained from natural sources or by hydrolysis of naturally occurring disaccharides, oligosaccharides or polysaccharides: 1/02, 13/002
- D21C Production of cellulose by removing non-cellulose substances from cellulose-containing materials; regeneration of pulping liquors; apparatus therefor: 9/007
- E04B General building constructions; walls, e.g. partitions; roofs; floors; ceilings; insulation or other protection of buildings: 1/92, 2001/925
- G21F Protection against x-radiation, gamma radiation, corpuscular radiation or particle bombardment; treating radioactively contaminated material; decontamination arrangements therefor: 7/00
- G21K Handling of particles or ionising radiation not otherwise provided for; irradiation devices; gamma ray or x-ray microscopes: 5/10
- H01J Electric discharge tubes or discharge lamps: 2237/202, 2237/31, 2237/3165, 37/317
- Y02E Reduction of greenhouse gas [ghg] emissions, related to energy generation, transmission or distribution: 50/10, 50/16, 50/17, 50/30, 50/32, 50/343, 60/16, 60/17
- Y02P Climate change mitigation technologies in the production or processing of goods: 20/133, 20/136
- Y02W Climate change mitigation technologies related to wastewater treatment or waste management: 10/33, 10/37, 10/40
- (73) Assignee
- Xyleco Inc
- (72) Inventors
- Marshall Medoff; Thomas Craig Masterman; Robert Paradis
- (54) Title
- Array for processing materials
- (57) Abstract
Materials (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) are processed to produce useful intermediates and products, such as energy, fuels, foods or materials. For example, systems equipment, and methods are described that can be used to treat feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials, using an array of vaults.
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Claims (10)
- A treatment operating unit, comprising: a plurality of vaults, each vault having an irradiation device for treating and a conveyer for moving a biomass material within each vault, wherein the vaults collectively are configured such the treatment system delivers a first dose to the biomass material in a first vault and then a second dose to the same biomass material in a second vault.
- The treatment system of claim 1 wherein the conveyor comprises a vibratory conveyer.
- The treatment system of claim 1 wherein the biomass material comprises corn cobs.
- The treatment system of claim 1 wherein the irradiation device comprises an electron accelerator.
- The treatment system of claim 1 wherein the vaults are adjacent to each other.
- The operating unit of claim 5, wherein the vaults are arranged in rows.
- The operating unit of claim 6, wherein the vaults area arranged in a plurality of parallel rows such that adjacent pairs of vaults share a common wall.
- The operating unit of claim 1, wherein the conveyors are configured to transport material through the vaults at a rate of at least 1000 lb per hour.
- The operating unit of claim 4, wherein the irradiation device further comprises a scan horn.
- The operating unit of claim 1 wherein the vaults are radiation opaque.
Description
Many potential lignocellulosic feedstocks are available today, including agricultural residues, woody biomass, municipal waste, oilseeds/cakes and seaweed, to name a few. At present, these materials are often under-utilized, being used, for example, as animal feed, biocompost materials, burned in a co-generation facility or even landfilled.
Lignocellulosic biomass includes crystalline cellulose fibrils embedded in a hemicellulose matrix, surrounded by lignin. This produces a compact matrix that is difficult to access by enzymes and other chemical, biochemical and/or biological processes. Cellulosic biomass materials (e.g., biomass material from which the lignin has been removed) is more accessible to enzymes and other conversion processes, but even so, naturally-occurring cellulosic materials often have low yields (relative to theoretical yields) when contacted with hydrolyzing enzymes. Lignocellulosic biomass is even more recalcitrant to enzyme attack. Furthermore, each type of lignocellulosic biomass has its own specific composition of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin.
Generally, the inventions relate to enclosures for treating materials, such as biomass materials. This inventions also relate to equipment, methods and systems for producing products, e.g., from a biomass material. The methods and systems include utilizing an array of vaults for processing the biomass material. Generally, many methods include treating recalcitrant biomass in vaults with electron beams and then biochemically and chemically processing the reduced recalcitrance material to, for example, ethanol, xylitol and other products.
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Record as JSON
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"1. A treatment operating unit, comprising: a plurality of vaults, each vault having an irradiation device for treating and a conveyer for moving a biomass material within each vault, wherein the vaults collectively are configured such the treatment system delivers a first dose to the biomass material in a first vault and then a second dose to the same biomass material in a second vault.",
"2. The treatment system of claim 1 wherein the conveyor comprises a vibratory conveyer.",
"3. The treatment system of claim 1 wherein the biomass material comprises corn cobs.",
"4. The treatment system of claim 1 wherein the irradiation device comprises an electron accelerator.",
"5. The treatment system of claim 1 wherein the vaults are adjacent to each other.",
"6. The operating unit of claim 5, wherein the vaults are arranged in rows.",
"7. The operating unit of claim 6, wherein the vaults area arranged in a plurality of parallel rows such that adjacent pairs of vaults share a common wall.",
"8. The operating unit of claim 1, wherein the conveyors are configured to transport material through the vaults at a rate of at least 1000 lb per hour.",
"9. The operating unit of claim 4, wherein the irradiation device further comprises a scan horn.",
"10. The operating unit of claim 1 wherein the vaults are radiation opaque."
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