US Patent Issued to Alder Energy on Nov. 3 for "Low energy process to produce a hydrophobic oil from biomass pyrolysis liquids" (British, Spanish, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,137, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Alder Energy LLC (Louisville, Colo.).

"Low energy process to produce a hydrophobic oil from biomass pyrolysis liquids" was invented by Sanjeev Gajjela (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Ralph Phillips Overend (Ottawa), Javier Gonzalez Catalan (Saragossa, Spain), Zhiheng Wu (Beeston, Great Britain), Patricia Lapuente (Santander, Spain) and Jose Antonio Medrano Catalan (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a novel process for fractionating biomass pyrolysis oil quantitatively into energy dense hydrophobic aromatic fraction and water-soluble organics in an economical and...