241 |
Protein Recovery |
US14511433 |
2014-10-10 |
US20150024451A1 |
2015-01-22 |
Peter Edmond Vaughan WILLIAMS |
A process for recovering a protein-containing fermentation agent, comprising (i) forming an aqueous mixture of an organic material and a protein-containing fermentation agent capable of fermenting the organic material to produce ethanol, (ii) fermenting the aqueous mixture to produce ethanol, (iii) recovering from the fermented aqueous mixture an ethanol stream which is rich in ethanol and a co-product stream comprising unfermented organic material, fermentation agent and an aqueous solution of dissolved solids in water, (iv) subjecting the co-product stream to a first separation stage to recover a first stream rich in the unfermented organic material and a second stream rich in the fermentation agent suspended in the aqueous solution, and (v) subjecting the second stream to a second separation step, capable of recovering suspended solids from a liquid, to recover a third stream rich in the fermentation agent and a fourth stream rich in the aqueous solution. The invention also relates to a new yeast composition obtainable from the process. |
242 |
SEPARATION OF BIOCOMPONENTS FROM DDGS |
US14190332 |
2014-02-26 |
US20150001160A1 |
2015-01-01 |
Aicardo Roa-Espinosa |
A multi stage process for the progressive removal of protein and isolating streams containing cellulose fibers and oil from a waste stream containing Dried Distillers Grains with Solubles is disclosed. Targeted polymers are added to the source and separated streams prior to passing the streams through separation equipment including a rotary screen, a multi disk press, a dissolved air floatation device and optionally a centrifuge in which the waste stream is separated into a stream containing predominantly protein, a stream containing predominantly oil and a stream that contains predominantly cellulose and hemicellulose fibers. |
243 |
Systems and method for biomass digestion |
US13936995 |
2013-07-08 |
US08911627B2 |
2014-12-16 |
Detlev K. Johnson |
Provided herein are systems and methods for biomass digestion and products formed thereof. The products include one or more biogases, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classified Class A Biosolids, and pathogen reduced organic liquid fertilizer. Through the digestion of waste materials using sequential phases in an efficient digestion process, enhanced biomass conversion efficiency and improved output of products (in quantity and/or quality) are obtained with a significant reduction in dwell time in each phase. |
244 |
SUPPLEMENTATION OF FATTY ACIDS FOR IMPROVING ALCOHOL PRODUCTIVITY |
US14317249 |
2014-06-27 |
US20140363865A1 |
2014-12-11 |
Keith H. BURLEW; Robert Dicosimo; Michael Charles Grady; Ranjan Patnaik |
Fatty acids derived from biomass at a step in a fermentation process can be added to a fermentation medium comprising a recombinant microorganism that produces a product alcohol. At least one of growth rate and fermentable carbon consumption of the microorganism is greater in the presence of the fatty acids than the growth rate and the fermentable carbon consumption of the microorganism in the absence of the fatty acids. The addition of the fatty acids can increase glucose consumption, and can improve microorganism biomass production (cell growth/density) and growth rate, thereby reducing production time and increasing productivity of the fermentation process. |
245 |
Thin Stillage Clarification |
US14222678 |
2014-03-23 |
US20140319066A1 |
2014-10-30 |
Michael B. LoCascio; Ronald K. Dunbar |
Systems and methods for improving the quality of solids and liquids recovered at atmospheric pressure and temperature from a stillage stream generated as a by-product of an ethanol production process, the recovered solids having higher bio-available amino and fatty acids than evaporation-produced condensed solubles, the recovered liquids having less total solids and total suspended solids than evaporation-produced condensate. A static mixer includes an input for receiving the stillage stream combined with a GRAS anionic polymer, a cylindrical mixing chamber that controllably mixes the stillage stream and the polymer to generate wet flocculated solids and liquid co-product, and a discharge chute that outputs the wet flocculated solids and liquid co-products onto a moving, gravity filter belt having a membrane surface that separates the output from the static mixer into recovered liquids in the form of clarified, thin stillage and recovered solids in the form of dry flocculated solids. |
246 |
HOP RESIN-BASED SUBSTANCE |
US13982157 |
2012-01-27 |
US20140255586A1 |
2014-09-11 |
Josef Schulmeyr; Michael Dresel; Thomas Hofmann |
A hop resin-based substance has the soft resin at least substantially removed such that the hard resin is present in an enriched state, the hard resin is enriched in terms of the water-insoluble constituents and xanthohumol has been, at least substantially, removed. The substance allows both very balanced bitterness to be adjusted and it does not constitute any optical impairment of beer due to insoluble matter caused by xanthohumol. |
247 |
Multifunctional biocomposite additive compositions and methods |
US13892347 |
2013-05-13 |
US08772379B2 |
2014-07-08 |
Michael J. Riebel; Jeffrey L. Tate |
Biocomposite compositions and compositions, which include dried distillers solubles, and which can be used in making biocomposite compositions are described. Methods for preparing the compositions are also described. |
248 |
Multifunctional biocomposite additive compositions and methods |
US13863758 |
2013-04-16 |
US08765827B2 |
2014-07-01 |
Michael J. Riebel; Jeffrey L. Tate |
Biocomposite compositions and compositions, which include dried distillers solubles, and which can be used in making biocomposite compositions are described. Methods for preparing the compositions are also described. |
249 |
MULTIFUNCTIONAL BIOCOMPOSITE ADDITIVE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS |
US14087229 |
2013-11-22 |
US20140080946A1 |
2014-03-20 |
Michael J. Riebel; Jeffrey L. Tate |
Biocomposite compositions and compositions, which include dried distillers solubles, and which can be used in making biocomposite compositions are described. Methods for preparing the compositions are also described. |
250 |
USE OF VINASSE IN THE PROCESS OF SACCHARIFICATION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS |
US14007980 |
2012-03-05 |
US20140045237A1 |
2014-02-13 |
Celia Maria Araujo Galvao; Juliana Conceicao Teodoro; Liliane Pires Andrade; Jose Augusto Travassos Rios Tome; Oswaldo Godoy Neto |
The use of stillage in a saccharification/fermentation process of lignocellulosic biomasses, regardless of the form of the biomasses and regardless of the use of the obtained final hydrolyzed broth. The beneficial effect conferred by the stillage to the saccharification process of lignocellulosic biomasses presents among other characteristics the ability to buffer the reaction medium, especially when such process takes place in an enzymatic route, but not limited to it, regardless of the type of biomass being used and the type of pretreatment to which the biomass is subjected. Fermentation processes, such as the ethanol production, using stillage as source of nutrients such as, for example, nitrogen, for growing microorganisms, but not limited to it. |
251 |
Multifunctional biocomposite additive compositions and methods |
US13892354 |
2013-05-13 |
US08598256B2 |
2013-12-03 |
Michael J. Riebel; Jeffrey L. Tate |
Biocomposite compositions and compositions, which include dried distillers solubles, and which can be used in making biocomposite compositions are described. Methods for preparing the compositions are also described. |
252 |
Dry-mill ethanol plant extraction enhancement |
US12350600 |
2009-01-08 |
US08580329B2 |
2013-11-12 |
Peter Bendorf; Dan Sonnek |
In a liquid stream capture process for extracting various components in a dry mill ethanol process, a converted mash is separated into sugars/carbohydrates and corn residue by rinsing the converted mash with a dilute solvent stream and, after the sugars/carbohydrates have been separated, oils and proteins are extracted from the corn residue by rinsing the corn residue with a concentrated solvent stream. The dilute solvent stream is a mixture of ethanol and water, and the concentrated solvent stream is pure ethanol. |
253 |
Production of stilbenoids |
US12936830 |
2009-04-02 |
US08569024B2 |
2013-10-29 |
Bo Stenhuus; Hans Peter Smits; Thomas Durhuus; Michael Katz |
A method for the production of a stilbenoid, such as resveratrol or pinosylvin, by fermenting plant material such a grape must using a yeast having a metabolic pathway producing said stilbenoid, separating a solids waste material from said fermentation and extracting said stilbenoid. |
254 |
MULTIFUNCTIONAL BIOCOMPOSITE ADDITIVE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS |
US13892354 |
2013-05-13 |
US20130267631A1 |
2013-10-10 |
Michael J. Riebel; Jeffrey L. Tate |
Biocomposite compositions and compositions, which include dried distillers solubles, and which can be used in making biocomposite compositions are described. Methods for preparing the compositions are also described. |
255 |
HEAT-STABLE CARBONIC ANHYDRASES AND THEIR USE |
US13856156 |
2013-04-03 |
US20130203156A1 |
2013-08-08 |
Martin Borchert; Paria Saunders |
The present invention relates to use of heat-stable carbonic anhydrase in CO2 extraction, e.g., from flue gas, natural gas or biogas. Furthermore, the invention relates to isolated polypeptides having carbonic anhydrase activity at elevated temperatures and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides. |
256 |
ENZYME ENHANCED CO2 CAPTURE AND DESORPTION PROCESSES |
US13503808 |
2011-10-28 |
US20130203155A1 |
2013-08-08 |
Nathalie J.M.C. Penders; Peter W.J. Derks; Geert F. Versteeg; Sylvie Fradette |
An enzyme-catalyzed desorption process for releasing CO2 gas from an ion-rich solution containing bicarbonate ions includes providing carbonic anhydrase in the ion-rich solution such that in a desorption unit the carbonic anhydrase is allowed to flow with the ion-rich solution while promoting conversion of the bicarbonate ions into CO2 gas and generating an ion-depleted solution and releasing the CO2 gas and the ion-depleted solution from the desorption unit. A CO2 capture process includes contacting a CO2-containing gas with a solution in an absorption unit, to convert CO2 into ions; feeding an ion-rich solution to a desorption unit wherein carbonic anhydrase is present within the ion-rich solution to generate an ion-depleted solution and, preferably, recycling the ion-depleted solution. Methods of decreasing the CO2 desorption temperature in a desorption unit, decreasing the CO2 desorption reactor size, and decreasing the CO2 desorption energy input in a desorption unit, are also described. |
257 |
Multifunctional biocomposite additive compositions and methods |
US12466336 |
2009-05-14 |
US08449986B2 |
2013-05-28 |
Michael J. Riebel; Jeffrey L. Tate |
Biocomposite compositions and compositions, which include dried distillers solubles, and which can be used in making biocomposite compositions are described. Methods for preparing the compositions are also described. |
258 |
OIL COMPOSITION AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME |
US13656490 |
2012-10-19 |
US20130109873A1 |
2013-05-02 |
Jason Bootsma |
This invention relates to a corn oil composition comprising unrefined corn oil having a free fatty acid content of less than about 5 weight percent, and methods for producing the same. |
259 |
Spent grain fuel product and process |
US13199505 |
2011-09-01 |
US20130055622A1 |
2013-03-07 |
Geoffrey Larson; Curtis Holmes; Brandon Smith; David D. Wilson |
A process of making a fuel product from spent grain from a beer brewing process. In the brewing process, the grain is pulverized to a particle size whose mean particle size is generally in the range of 0.25 mm to 0.6 mm with less than 1% greater than 2 mm. After the brewing sugars are extracted from the grain, the spent grain is pressed against a filter to reduce moisture below sixty-five percent (65%), and then the grain is dried to further reduce its moisture to less than ten percent (10%). The dried spent grain, after the aforementioned processing, is fed into a combustion chamber for a steam boiler that is used for beer brewing, and the spent grain is advanced downward through the combustion chamber with agitation to aid combustion. |
260 |
Ethanol recovery from fermentation broth |
US12313704 |
2008-11-24 |
US08252350B1 |
2012-08-28 |
Robert E. Cadwalader; Rex A. Dieterle |
A method of separating an aqueous ethanol mixture from an active ethanol fermentation broth. The method comprising the steps of (a) supplying a selected fraction of the fermentation broth to a first reverse osmosis membrane separation stage to generate a dilute aqueous ethanol permeate and a reduced ethanol content fermentation broth retentate; (b) recycling the reduced ethanol retentate to the active fermentation broth; (c) supplying the aqueous ethanol permeate to a second membrane separation stage to generate a concentrated aqueous ethanol retentate and a dilute aqueous ethanol permeate; and (d) recycling the dilute aqueous ethanol permeate of step (c) to the active ethanol fermentation broth. An additional step of processing the concentrated aqueous ethanol retentate to remove water optionally follows. |