MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547067744 A) filed by Ifp Energies Nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, France, on July 16, for 'method for treating lignocellulosic biomass.'
Inventor(s) include Aragones, Matthieu; Couderc, Sophie; and Ferschneider, Gilles.
The application for the patent was published on July 25, under issue no. 30/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a method for treating lignocellulosic biomass, which method comprises - a) a step (2) of pretreating the biomass to obtain pretreated biomass (3) - b) a first solid/liquid separation step of separating the solids/liquids of all or a portion (3a) of the pretreated biomass (3) into a first solid fraction (7) and a first liquid fraction (6) comprising a mixture of sugars - c) a step (14) of performing enzymatic hydrolysis on the first solid fraction (7) of the pretreated biomass to obtain a hydrolysate (15) in the form of one or more sugars - d) a step (24) of purifying the first liquid fraction by bringing the first liquid fraction (6) into contact with microorganisms that consume only C6 sugars in order to obtain a purified liquid fraction (26) - e) a second solid/liquid separation step (27) of separating the solid/liquids of the purified liquid fraction (26)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 10, 2024, under International application No.PCT/EP2024/050443.
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