US Patent Issued to VALMET on May 26 for "Method and system for processing lignocellulose biomass material" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,631, issued on May 26, was assigned to VALMET AB (Sundsvall, Sweden).

"Method and system for processing lignocellulose biomass material" was invented by Peter Bjorklund (Umea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a lignocellulose biomass material with a moisture content below 10 weight-% and an ash content below 1.0 weight-% includes: adding an acid catalyst to the lignocellulose biomass material; after adding the acid catalyst, thermally treating the lignocellulose biomass material with steam at an elevated pressure and an elevated temperature in at least one reactor; discharging the lignocellulose biomass ma...