Abstract: A method for producing highly bioavailable oil compositions from biomasses and, in particular, autotrophic algal biomasses, and providing characterized and clarified mass balance breakdowns and component products therefrom without loss of significant mass in an extraction such as a liquid-liquid extraction, polarity segregation and use of mechanical cartridges.

Abstract: A method for producing highly bioavailable oil compositions from biomasses and, in particular, autotrophic algal biomasses, and providing characterized and clarified mass balance breakdowns and component products therefrom without loss of significant mass in an extraction such as a liquid-liquid extraction, polarity segregation and use of mechanical cartridges.

Abstract: A composition comprising a concentration of total lipids, wherein at least 20% of the total lipids concentration by weight % comprises a polar lipids fraction, with greater than about 30% by weight % of the polar lipids fraction comprising glycolipids, and wherein the composition comprises no greater than 4% of its weight % as chlorophyll concentration, and formulations and medical compositions including the lipids-containing composition.

Abstract: A method for using mechanical cartridges for the extraction of highly bioavailable omega-3 containing biomass oils from algal biomass is presented. Cartridges may contain an inner bore with an inlet and outlet, and may be amenable to adjustments in pressure and temperature, thereby permitting solvent-based extraction of algal biomass in which solvent temperature, pressure, retention time and flow rate are controllable.

Abstract: A method for producing highly bioavailable oil compositions from biomasses and, in particular, autotrophic algal biomasses, and providing characterized and clarified mass balance breakdowns and component products therefrom without loss of significant mass in an extraction such as a liquid-liquid extraction, polarity segregation and use of mechanical cartridges.

Abstract: A composition comprising a concentration of total lipids, wherein at least 20% of the total lipids concentration by weight % comprises a polar lipids fraction, with greater than about 30% by weight % of the polar lipids fraction comprising glycolipids, and wherein the composition comprises no greater than 4% of its weight % as chlorophyll concentration, and formulations and medical compositions including the lipids-containing composition.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a bioavailable, oil composition wherein at least 20% by weight % of its total lipids content comprises polar lipids such as glycolipids or phospholipids, at least 30 weight % of its polar lipids comprises glycolipids, and no more than 4% by weight % of the oil composition is made up of chlorophyll species. Formulations containing and methods for producing said oil compositions from algal oils or extracts are also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for upgrading (for example, removing heteroatoms, metals, or metalloids) an oil composition derived or extracted from a biomass. The upgraded oil composition can be used to make a desired product, for example, a fuel product.

Abstract: Renewable oils are converted to aromatics, by contact with a catalytically-active form of gallium, for use in the petrochemical industry and/or for fuel blending components or additives. The renewable oil(s) feature high oxygen content, high H/C mole ratios, and high fatty acid or fatty acid ester content prior to heating and contact with the catalyst. The catalyst may be, for example, a gallium-doped version of one or more zeolite-alumina matrix catalysts with pore sizes having 10 oxygen atoms in the pore mouth, such as ZSM-5, ZSM-11, ZSM-23, MCM-70, SSZ-44, SSZ-58, SSZ-35, and ZSM-22. Aromatics-production from the renewable oils is enhanced at higher gallium-cation levels, with the preferred level being about 1.0 Ga/framework-Al. While various renewable oils, or “bio-oils,” may be used, algae oil has exhibited very high BTEX yields over the gallium cation catalyst, under conditions at or near 1 atm and approximately 400 degrees C.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for upgrading (for example, removing heteroatoms, metals, or metalloids) an oil composition derived or extracted from a biomass. The upgraded oil composition can be used to make a desired product, for example, a fuel product.

Abstract: A copolymer composition including a copolymer having repeat units of structural formula I: where X is selected from —CH2—, —CH2—CH2— and O; m is an integer from 0 to 5; and each occurrence of R1-R4 are independently selected from H; C1 to C25 linear, branched, and cyclic alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl, alkenyl and alkynyl that can include one or more hetero atoms selected from O, N, and Si; a group that contains an epoxy functionality; —(CH2)nC(O)OR5; —(CH2)nC(O)OR6; —(CH2)nOR6; —(CH2)nOC(O)R6; —(CH2)nC(O)R6; —(CH2)nOC(O)OR6; and any combination of two of R1, R2, R3, and R4 linked together by a linking group. A portion of the repeat units having structural formula I contain at least one epoxy functional pendant group. The copolymer composition can be included with a material that photonically forms a catalyst in a photodefinable dielectric composition, which can be used to form a photodefinable layer on a substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for biofuel production. Systems of integrated biorefineries (IBR) and methods of using IBRs for producing fuel compositions and other products are provided herein. The IBRs can use algae for generating biofeedstock to produce the fuel compositions.

Abstract: In embodiments of the present invention, systems for producing a biodiesel product from multiple feedstocks may include a biodiesel reactor, a decanter, a flash evaporator and a distillation column. In other embodiments of the present invention, a process for producing a biodiesel comprises distilling a biodiesel reaction product to remove tocopherols and sterol glucosides and, optionally, adding biodiesel stabilizers to the resultant biodiesel to enhance thermal stability. The components of the system are interrelated so that parameters may be regulated to allow production of a custom biodiesel product.

Abstract: Oligomers of polycyclic olefin monomers, and optionally allylic or olefinic monomers, and a method of making such oligomers that includes reacting polycyclic olefin monomers in the presence of a Ni or Pd containing catalyst, or in the case of allylic monomers in the presence of a free radical initiator. The oligomers can be included in photoresist compositions as dissolution rate modifiers. The photoresist compositions can further include a polymeric binder resin, a photoacid generator, and solvents.

Abstract: A polymerization catalyst for the polymerization and copolymerization of olefin monomers and the copolymerization of olefin monomers with other monomers selected from, for example, norbornenes and styrenes are disclosed. The polymerization catalysts disclosed contain a metal center selected from Ti, Zr, Hf, Ni and Pd with at least one chelating ligand.

Abstract: A process for polymerizing and copolymerizing cyclic olefins, such as, norbornene is disclosed. The disclosed process uses a catalyst complex that exhibit a high activity for the polymerization and co-polymerization of cyclic olefins and improved stability toward heat, oxygen and moisture.

Abstract: A polymerization catalyst for the polymerization and copolymerization of olefin monomers and the copolymerization of olefin monomers with other monomers selected from, for example, norbornenes and styrenes are disclosed. The polymerization catalysts disclosed contain a metal center selected from Ti, Zr, Hf, Ni and Pd with at least one chelating ligand.

Abstract: A copolymer composition including a copolymer having repeat units of structural formula I: where X is selected from —CH2—, —CH2—CH2— and O; m is an integer from 0 to 5; and each occurrence of R1–R4 are independently selected from H; C1 to C25 linear, branched, and cyclic alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkaryl, alkenyl and alkynyl that can include one or more hetero atoms selected from O, N, and Si; a group that contains an epoxy functionality; —(CH2)nC(O)OR5; —(CH2)nC(O)OR6; —(CH2)nOR6; —(CH2)nOC(O)R6; —(CH2)nC(O)R6; —(CH2)nOC(O)OR6; and any combination of two of R1, R2, R3, and R4 linked together by a linking group. A portion of the repeat units having structural formula I contain at least one epoxy functional pendant group. The copolymer composition can be included with a material that photonically forms a catalyst in a photodefinable dielectric composition, which can be used to form a photodefinable layer on a substrate.

Abstract: A catalyst system and a process for the bulk addition polymerization or of polycyclic olefins, such as norbornene, methylnorbornene, ethylnorbornene, butylnorbornene or hexylnorbornene, 1,2,3,4,4a,5,8,8a-octahydro-1,4:5,8-dimethanonapthalene, 5,5?-(1,2-ethanediyl)bisbicyclo[2.2.1]hept-2-ene, and 1,4,4a,4b,5,8,8a,8b-octahydro-1,4:5,8-dimethanobiphenylene are disclosed. The catalyst includes an organonickel or organopalladium transition metal procatalyst and an activator compound. Polymerization can be carried out in a reaction injection molding process to yield thermoplastic and thermoset molded polymeric articles possessing high glass transition temperatures.

Abstract: Methods for the addition polymerization of cycloolefins using a cationic Group 10 metal complex and a weakly coordinating anion of the formula: [(R′)zM(L′)x(L″)y]b[WCA]d wherein [(R′)zM(L′)x(L″)y] is a cation complex where M represents a Group 10 transition metal; R′ represents an anionic hydrocarbyl containing ligand; L′ represents a Group 15 neutral electron donor ligand; L″ represents a labile neutral electron donor ligand; x is 1 or 2; and y is 0, 1, 2, or 3; and z is 0 or 1, wherein the sum of x, y, and z is 4; and [WCA] represents a weakly coordinating counteranion complex; and b and d are numbers representing the number of times the cation complex and weakly coordinating counteranion complex are taken to balance the electronic charge on the overall catalyst complex.