NOVELTY - Processing a biomass material comprises: introducing a biomass material to a compartment of a solventless recovery system; contacting material with a superheated vapor stream to vaporize a portion of an initial liquid content in the material; separating a vapor component and a solid component from the heated material; retaining the gas component; discharging the solid component from the system; contacting the solid component with a digestive solvent; and contacting the digested biomass stream with molecular hydrogen to form a hydrocatalytically treated mixture.    USE - The method is useful for processing a biomass material (claimed) for recovering volatile organic compounds, such as acetic acid and lactic acid, and higher hydrocarbons.    ADVANTAGE - The method allows production of volatile organic compound and hydrocarbons, which reduces storage, handling, transportation and feedstock preparation costs associated with other feedstock before it can enter the production flow of the conversion process from biomass to hydrocarbons and other chemicals.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Processing a biomass material comprises: either (a) introducing a biomass material to a compartment of a solventless recovery system, where the biomass material contains one or more volatile organic compounds; (b) contacting the biomass material with a superheated vapor stream in the compartment to vaporize at least a portion of an initial liquid content in the biomass material, where the superheated vapor stream comprises at least one volatile organic compound; (c) separating a vapor component and a solid component from the heated biomass material, where the vapor component comprises the volatile organic compound; (d) retaining at least a portion of the gas component for use as part of the superheated vapor stream; (e) discharging the solid component from the solventless recovery system; (f) contacting at least a portion of the solid component with a digestive solvent to form a digested biomass stream comprising carbohydrates; (g) contacting the digested biomass stream with molecular hydrogen in the presence of a molecular hydrogen activating catalyst to form a hydrocatalytically treated mixture comprising oxygenated hydrocarbon molecules, where a first portion of the oxygenated hydrocarbon molecules is recycled to form at least part of the digestive solvent; (h) and processing at least a second portion of the oxygenated hydrocarbon molecules to form a fuel blend; or the steps of (f), (a)-(e), (g) and (h) as above per se.