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Kubic, Jr., William L.

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Method and system embodiments for making furfural from hemicellulose source materials

Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method for producing furfural from a hemicellulose source material. Also disclosed are embodiments of a system for carrying out the method. In particular embodiments, the method can be carried out without adding an extraneous mineral acid to facilitate pentose production from the hemicellulose source material and thus byproducts produced by the method can be used as animal feed.

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System and method for making fuels

Embodiments of a system and method are disclosed for obtaining high-energy fuels. In some embodiments, the system and method produces one or more fused cyclic compounds that can include one or more bridging points. The fused cyclic compounds are suitable for use as a high-energy fuels, and may be derived from biomass.

Sutton, Andrew D.↗