360 results about "Value added product" patented technology

A new processing capability for dust enhancement over land or water using image data from the Sea-viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (SeaWiFS) has been developed for Naval meteorology / oceanography (MetOc) operations support. The data are captured via direct broadcast high-resolution picture transmission (HRPT) at Navy Regional Centers in Rota, Bahrain, and Yokosuka, and processed at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey. The raw data are calibrated, corrected for missing lines and clutter, corrected for molecular scatter contamination, and enhanced through multispectral combination to yield value added products. The processing has been automated completely such that products, generated upon receipt of data, are hosted upon a password protected website typically 60 to 90 minutes from time of initial capture. This invention summarizes the SeaWiFS instrument capabilities, the protocol followed for automated near real-time processing, a physical basis for the NRL enhancements, and specific examples of the products with extension to over-land dust enhancement as enabled by MODIS. It closes with a glimpse of the potential utility of these products from the perspective of the warfighter.

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a web-based graphical user interface to a legacy insurance data process system to increase the functionality and ease of use in issuing insurance quotes and policies, providing insurance information and other insurance related services. The system and method integrate use of Internet technology in business work flows, provide dynamic data entry for insurance coverage packages and pricing programs, offer easy access to value-added products and services, and enable local printing of professional insurance applications, proposals and forms to facilitate immediate delivery of professional-quality proposals to customers.

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a web-based graphical user interface to a legacy insurance data process system to increase the functionality and ease of use in quoting and issuing insurance quotes and policies, providing insurance information and other insurance related services. The system and method integrate use of Internet technology in business work flows, provide dynamic data entry for insurance coverage packages and pricing programs, offer easy access to value-added products and services, and enable local printing of professional insurance applications, proposals and forms to facilitate immediate delivery of professional-quality proposals to customers.

A process is defined for the continuous steam pretreatment and fractionation of corn cobs and low lignin lignocellulosic biomass to produce a concentrated cellulose solid stream that is sensitive to enzymatic hydrolysis. Valuable chemicals are recovered by fractionating the liquid and vapor stream composed of hydrolysis and degradation products of the hemicellulose. Cellulosic derived glucose is produced for fermentation to biofuels. A hemicellulose concentrate is recovered that can be converted to value added products including ethanol.

The invention discloses a preparation method for a formaldehyde-free protein adhesive, mainly comprising the following steps: 1) adding a protein-containing raw material and water and stirring at room temperature; 2) adding acidity-adjusting agent for reaction at 20-40 DEG C; 3) adding enhancer for reaction at 20-50 DEG C; and 4) adding preservative and stirring at room temperature to obtain the formaldehyde-free protein adhesive. In the invention, the adhesive is prepared based on protein-containing by-products of plants or animals, has the characteristics of low cost, wide source, renewability and the like, does not contain formaldehyde, has no toxicity, is environmental friendly and has superior market prospect. In addition, the existing degreased miscellaneous meal for low value-added product of animal feed, fertilizers and the like can be developed into high value-added products, thus providing a new way for development of environmental-friendly biomass-based wood adhesive and resource utilization of industrial by-products.

Paper, cotton, corn stover, straw, and wood are converted into furanic products in high yields (based on their cellulose content) using a simple, inexpensive process involving concurrent hydrolysis, dehydration, and substitution reactions coupled with continuous extraction into an organic phase. In a simultaneous process, the hemicellulose fraction of these substrates is converted into furfural, and together these constitute an efficient means for the total exploitation of the carbohydrate content of biomass.

The invention belongs to the technical field of extraction and purification of plant ingredients and particularly relates to a method for extracting and purifying cannabidiol from China-hemp. In the method, an ingredient of cannabidiol is extracted from floral leaves in a mature period of the China-hemp according to a supercritical CO2 extraction technique, a cannabidiol extract is further purified by macroporous adsorbent resin and a rapid purification system, a cannabidiol content of an obtained product is 98% or higher, and the cannabidiol product does not contain a psychotoxic ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol. According to the method, a chemical organic solvent is not used in an extraction process, so that the method is environment-friendly and is low in toxicity and high in efficiency; the loss of cannabidiol in an adsorption elution process is reduced in a purification process, so that the impurity ingredients such as tetrahydrocannabinol and the like are effectively removed, and the use of an organic regent is decreased, so that the purification cost is lowered, and the environmental pollution is reduced. The product is high in yield and purity, and the requirement for development of a value-added product of the China-hemp, in particular to the market requirement of the active ingredient of the cannabidiol product in the China-hemp, can be met, and especially, the cannabidiol product has the great application advantage in the pharmaceutical field.

An improved ethanol production process providing novel stillage treatment is disclosed wherein the stillage is separated into four value added product streams that are subjected to drying conditions reducing or eliminating volatization of any VOC's in the product streams.

Improved apparatus for use in process systems which include exothermic chemical conversions of organic compounds to value added products is disclosed, more particularly, flow reactors for exothermic chemical conversions using a fixed heterogeneous catalyst with means for control of the exotherm. Flow reactors of the invention comprise a plurality of walled conduits each having an outer surface disposed for contact with a heat-transfer medium, an inlet distribution manifold adapted for flow communication with a downstream manifold through channels formed by heterogeneous catalytic material disposed within each conduit during operation in a sequence of zones for catalyst having the same or different length along the longitudinal coordinate of the conduit and within each zone essentially uniform cross-section of the conduit measured in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal coordinate thereby defining volume of the zone, and the sequence of zones comprising of at least two zones such that each downstream zone has a larger or smaller cross-section than the contiguous upstream zone. Another aspect of the invention includes processes which use such flow reactors, for example the continuous manufacture of maleic anhydride.

Paper, cotton, corn stover, straw, and wood are converted into furanic products in high yields (based on their cellulose content) using a simple, inexpensive process involving concurrent hydrolysis, dehydration, and substitution reactions coupled with continuous extraction into an organic phase. In a simultaneous process, the hemicellulose fraction of these substrates is converted into furfural, and together these constitute an efficient means for the total exploitation of the carbohydrate content of biomass.

Unique methods have been developed to convert saccharides into value-added products such as alkyl lactates, lactic acid, alkyl levulinates, levulinic acid, and optionally alkyl formate esters and / or hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). Useful catalysts include Lewis acid catalysts and Brønsted acid catalysts including mineral acids, metal halides, immobilized heterogeneous catalysts functionalized with a Brønsted acid group or a Lewis acid group, or combinations thereof. The saccharides are contacted with the catalyst in the presence of various alcohols.

The invention discloses a hydrocracking method for producing chemical raw materials, which is characterized in that the heavy raw material oil is mixed with hydrogen and then enters the first-stage hydrogenation treatment area, and the hydrogen-rich gas obtained by separating the first-stage effluent directly enters the second-stage hydrocracking reaction The liquid enters the fractionation tower for fractionation, and the obtained gas, naphtha and tail oil are used as chemical raw materials to exit the system. The middle distillates are sent to the second-stage hydrotreating area alone or mixed with other low-quality distillates for cracking. The gas is recycled and the liquid enters the fractionation column. Compared with the prior art, the two reaction zones in the method of the present invention share a set of circulating hydrogen system, and can simultaneously convert two or more low-quality raw materials into high value-added products.

Methods and constructs for the introduction of multiple genes into plants using a single transformation event are described. Constructs contain a single 5′ promoter operably linked to DNA encoding a modified intein splicing unit. The splicing unit is expressed as a polyprotein and consists of a first protein fused to an intein fused to a second protein. The splicing unit has been engineered to promote excision of all non-essential components in the polyprotein but prevent the ligation reactions normally associated with protein splicing. Additional genetic elements encoding inteins and additional proteins can be fused in frame to the 5′-terminus of the coding region for the second protein to form a construct for expression of more than two proteins. A single 3′ termination sequence, such as a polyadenylation sequence when the construct is to be expressed in eucaryotic cells, follows the last coding sequence. These methods and constructs are particularly useful for creating plants with stacked input traits, illustrated by glyphosate tolerant plants producing BT toxin, and / or value added products, illustrated by the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates in plants.

A fractionation process for producing value-added products from a lignocellulosic biomass, comprises: a) mechanically refining the lignocellulosic biomass under mild refining conditions to form a refined biomass pulp with enhanced susceptibility to separation of hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin, and enhanced digestibility of carbohydrates in hydrolysis b) separating hemicellulose and sulfur-free high-quality lignin from cellulose in the refined biomass, and, optionally c) producing various bioproducts from the above said process.

A system for integration of value-added product costs (1) can calculate a product's value-added costs according to manufacturing expenses and work time data on work orders. The system for integration of value-added product costs is connected to a number of client terminals (3), a general ledger management system (5), a manufacturing process management system (6) and a work order management system (8) via a network (2). The system for integration of value-added product costs includes a web server (12), a database server (14), and a database (16). The web server is connected to the database server, which contains the database. The web server stores a series of software function modules for receiving and processing data from the client terminals, and for returning results to the client terminals after processing. A related method is also provided.

The invention relates to a kind of microcrystalline glass and a preparation method thereof. The preparation raw materials include 10-90wt% of iron, vanadium and titanium-containing tailings, 5-50wt% of fluorite tailings, 1-50wt% of dolomite and 0-20wt% of soda ash. The preparation method of the microcrystalline glass comprises the following steps: uniformly mixing and fusing raw materials in proportion so as to obtain fused glass fluid; and shaping the fused glass fluid, then cooling the shaped glass fluid, and carrying out heat treatment on the obtained product so as to obtain the microcrystalline glass. The microcrystalline glass provided by the invention can be widely used for manufacturing high wear-resisting, acid and alkali erosion resistant and impact resistant products, and the performance of the microcrystalline glass is far higher than that of cast stone, thereby not only solving the pollution problem of tailings and manufacturing high-technical-content and high value-added products.

Hydrogen production is provided via integrated closed-loop processing of landfill gas (LFG) and solid biomass feedstocks such as various agricultural wastes with minimal environmental impact. LFG is purified of harmful contaminants over a bed of activated charcoal (AC) and is catalytically reformed to synthesis gas, which is further processed to pure hydrogen via CO-shift and pressure-swing adsorption stages. Biomass is gasified in the presence of steam with production of a producer gas and AC. The producer gas is mixed with LFG and is processed to hydrogen as described above. High-surface area AC produced in the gasifier is used for the purification of both LFG and producer gas. An integrated processing of LFG and biomass offers a number of advantages such as a high overall energy efficiency, feedstock flexibility, substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and production of value-added product-biocarbon that can be used as a soil enhancer.

Processes for the conversion of both straight- or branched-chain (e.g., paraffinic) as well as cyclic (e.g., naphthenic) hydrocarbons of a hydrocarbon feedstock into value added product streams are disclosed. The processes involve the use of both dehydrogenation and olefin cracking to produce both light olefins and aromatics in varying proportions depending on the feedstock composition and particular processing scheme. The processes are especially applicable to naphtha feedstocks comprising paraffins and naphthenes in the C5-C11 carbon number range.

The invention provides methods that enhance the production of biomass from algae that grow autotrophically, heterotrophically, or photoheterotrophically, through the use of plant growth regulators (such as growth hormones, indole acidic acid, etc.) and hormone mimics (phenoxyacetic compounds, etc.). The plant growth regulators or mimics thereof may further increase the proportion of the desired value-added products, such as biodiesel or starch, in the algae culture or the harvested biomass.

A method of producing value-added product from refinery-related gas, the method comprising: providing a refinery-related gas comprising at least one selected from C1-C8 compounds; intimately mixing the refinery-related gas with a liquid carrier in a high shear device to form a dispersion of gas in the liquid carrier, wherein the gas bubbles in the dispersion have a mean diameter of less than or equal to about 5 μm; and extracting value-added product comprising at least one component selected from higher hydrocarbons, olefins and alcohols. A system for producing value-added product from refinery-related gas comprising: at least one high shear device comprising at least one rotor and at least one complementarily-shaped stator; apparatus for the production of a refinery-related gas comprising one or more of C1-C8 compounds; and a pump configured for delivering a liquid stream comprising the liquid carrier to the high shear device.

A process is defined for the continuous steam pretreatment and fractionation of bagasse to produce a concentrated cellulose solid stream that is sensitive to enzymatic hydrolysis. Valuable chemicals are recovered by fractionating the liquid and vapor stream composed of hydrolysis and degradation products of the hemicellulose. Cellulosic derived glucose is produced for fermentation to biofuels. A hemicellulose concentrate is recovered that can be converted to value added products including ethanol.

A reactor produces a surface corona for emitting UV light and for the production of ozone by passing air or oxygen through the surface corona. The emitted UV light activates a photocatalyst coated on a surface facing a surface with embedded electrodes which generate the surface corona. The photocatalyst is a thin film of nanoparticle TiO2 with primary particle size of 0.02 to 0.2 μm was deposited on a substrate by a flame aerosol method. The method combines ozonation and photocatalysis to provide effective and efficient oxidation of alcohols and hydrocarbons to value added products. The method can also be used for air and water cleaning.

The present invention relates to a method for directly using acid cheese whey and / or its by-products from conventional cheese production to make additional food products. More particularly, the present method provides an economical way to profitably utilize a traditional waste or by-product in the manufacture of cream cheese or other high-value added products without re-culturing, without combining with cheese curd, without neutralizing, and without the disposal or recycling costs common in the industry.

The present invention relates to a system and method for providing a web-based graphical user interface to a legacy insurance data process system to increase the functionality and ease of use in issuing insurance quotes and policies, providing insurance information and other insurance related services. The system and method integrate use of Internet technology in business work flows, provide dynamic data entry for insurance coverage packages and pricing programs, offer easy access to value-added products and services, and enable local printing of professional insurance applications, proposals and forms to facilitate immediate delivery of professional-quality proposals to customers.

The invention provides polyester polyol compositions and resin blends, useful as components of polyurethane and polyisocyanurate polymers, produced from cyclohexane oxidation reaction byproducts, such as water extracts and non-volatile distillation residues from the reaction. Such byproducts of industrial processes for preparation of adipic acid and caprolactam, important intermediates in the production of various types of nylon, have hitherto largely been used only as fuels. The present invention provides value-added products, methods for making, and methods for using the byproduct-derived polyester polyol compositions. For example, the invention provides polyurethane (PU) and / or polyisocyanurate (PIR) polymers made using the polyol compositions and polyfunctional isocyanates. The PU and PIR polymers can be used as adhesives, binders (e.g., for wood fibers), coatings (e.g., for controlled release fertilizers), and foams.

An efficient process for saccharifying lignocellulosic biomass in concentrated aqueous solutions of certain bromine salts, particularly LiBr and CaBr2. Real lignocellulose biomass, such as corn stover, switchgrass, waste paper, hardwood, and softwood, can be hydrolyzed without the need for any prior pretreatment. Complete saccharification of both cellulose and hemicellulose is achieved within 5-200 min at temperatures ranging from about 100 to about 160° C. Residual lignin is readily separated from product sugars by filtration or centrifugation and can be used to prepare beneficial coproducts. The bromine salt can be recovered and separated from product sugars (predominantly monosaccharides) by any art-known method and in particular solvent extraction, anti-solvent precipitation, ion-exclusion chromatography and / or ion-exchange chromatography can be employed. Hydrolysis product containing sugars can be employed for in fermentation for the production of value added products or useful fuels.

The invention provides a method for producing monoammonium phosphate and magnesium ammonium phosphate by using wet concentrated phosphoric acid residues. According to the method, concentrated phosphoric acid residues are adopted as raw materials and sodium fluorosilicate, industrial monoammonium phosphate and magnesium ammonium phosphate are respectively obtained through the processes of dilution and sedimentation, defluorination, fractional multistep neutralization, concentration and crystallization, primary mother liquor pH value adjustment, size mixing of filter cake and secondary mother liquor, magnesia powder neutralization and the like. The method is little in equipment investment, low in production cost and good in product quality and has the advantages that the problem that acid residues of ammonium phosphate plants can be only used for producing low value-added products is solved and the low-cost industrial monoammonium phosphate slow release fertilizer magnesium ammonium phosphate with high quality and inexpensive can be obtained.

A new processing capability for desert dust enhancement using imager data from the Sea-viewing Wide Field of View Sensor (SeaWiFS) has been developed for Naval meteorology / oceanography (MetOc) operations support. The data are captured via direct broadcast high-resolution picture transmission (HRPT) at Navy Regional Centers in Rota, Bahrain, and Yokosuka, and processed at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey. The raw data are calibrated, corrected for missing lines and clutter, corrected for molecular scatter contamination, and enhanced through multispectral combination to yield value added products. The processing has been automated completely such that products, generated upon receipt of data, are hosted upon a password protected website typically 60 to 90 minutes from time of initial capture. This invention summarizes the SeaWiFS instrument capabilities, the protocol followed for automated near real-time processing, a physical basis for the NRL enhancements, and specific examples of the products with extension to over-land dust enhancement as enabled by MODIS. It closes with a glimpse of the potential utility of these products from the perspective of the warfighter.