Patent ID: 11925925
Assignee: EMBION TECHNOLOGIES SA
Field: Organic fine chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  C | IPC B  C

Claim 12:
13. A method for producing one or more fine chemicals selected from the group consisting of lipids, sugars, furanic compounds, humins, polyphenols and pectic compounds from biomass, the method comprising the steps of:
a) providing biomass;
b) optionally determining lipids and/or sugars contents in the biomass;
c) optionally pretreating the biomass;
d) contacting the biomass with a catalyst to form a reaction mixture, wherein the catalyst is an ionic polymer of claim 1 or a combination of ionic polymers of claim 1, the ionic polymer network of claim 10, a solid-supported ionic polymers of claim 11 and/or a membrane of claim 12;
e) degrading the biomass in the reaction mixture to produce a liquid phase and a solid phase, wherein the liquid phase includes the one or more fine chemicals, and the solid phase includes residual biomass;
f) isolating at least a portion of the liquid phase from the solid phase; and
g) recovering the one or more fine chemicals from the isolated liquid phase.