Forest Concepts Granted Core U.S. Patent for Bioenergy Feedstock Materials

Seattle -- Free-Press-Release.com-- Oct 13, 2011 -- AUBURN, WA – October 12, 2011 - Today Forest Concepts announce that the U.S. Patent Office has granted the following patent:

o U.S. Patent No. 8,034,449, issue date October 11, 2011, entitled ENGINEERED PLANT BIOMASS FEEDSTOCK PARTICLES

Forest Concepts has patented a novel class of flowable biomass feedstock particles with unusually large surface area to volume ratios that can be manufactured in remarkably uniform sizes using low energy comminution techniques. The particles exhibit a disrupted grain structure with prominent end and surface checks that greatly enhance their skeletal surface area as compared to their envelope surface area. The feedstocks can be manufactured from a variety of plant biomass materials including wood, crop residues, plantation grasses, hemp, bagasse and bamboo.

According to Dr. James H. Dooley, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, “Being able to produce uniform precision biomass feedstocks from a variety of plant biomass should improve the economics of second generation liquid transportation fuels.”

Additional U.S. and international patent applications are pending.

About Forest Concepts: Forest Concepts LLC is a wood-based materials research and development company that was formed in 1998 to apply sound science and disciplined design to solve important societal problems. The firm is a nationally recognized leader in the development and commercialization of new uses for smallwood and biomass from urban sources and as co-products of forest management and wildfire protection in rural areas. In addition to Woodstraw® ECM the company has developed innovative baling technology for woody biomass, plantation grasses like switchgrass and for corn stover and is currently working on a $1 million DOE grant to produce and characterize Precision Feedstocks™ for biofuels as well as a USDA SBIR grant to develop a process to extract clean white wood from hog fuel.


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Michael C. Perry, CEO
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253.333.9663
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Forest Concepts, LLC
Michael C. Perry
253.333.9663
http://www.forestconcepts.com