| abstract |
The present invention relates to the processing of biomass and the provision of products made from biomass. A method of treating a carbon-containing material by one or more of irradiation, sonication, thermal decomposition, oxidation, and steam explosion, and at least a part of the treated carbon-containing material using a microorganism. Conversion to produce a product comprising one or more of an alcohol, carboxylic acid, salt of carboxylic acid, ester of carboxylic acid, or any mixture thereof, of alcohol, carboxylic acid, carboxylic acid A method of making a salt, an ester of a carboxylic acid, or a mixture of any of these. [Selection] Figure 2 |