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7618795 |
Starch process
The present invention relates to a process for enzymatic hydrolysis of granular starch into a soluble starch hydrolysate at a temperature below the initial gelatinization temperature of said...
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7608439 |
Bio-recycling of carbon dioxide emitted from power plants
The invention provides a method to decrease emission of carbon dioxide from combustion of fossil fuels or other hydrocarbons and to enhance the efficiency of methane production from anaerobic...
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7608438 |
Process for the continuous production of ethanol
A process for the production of ethanol utilizes a vacuum process and selectively permeable membranes to increase ethanol production efficiency. Yeast converts sugars to ethanol in an anaerobic...
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7604967 |
Lignin-blocking treatment of biomass and uses thereof
Disclosed is a method for converting cellulose in a lignocellulosic biomass. The method provides for a lignin-blocking polypeptide and/or protein treatment of high lignin solids. The treatment...
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7604743 |
Process for producing ethanol and for energy recovery
The present invention is directed to a process for the production of ethanol and energy. The process includes the steps of fermenting a corn mash in an aqueous medium to produce a beer. Next, the...
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7598063 |
Process for producing ethanol by using recombinant coryneform bacterium
The present invention provides a process for highly efficiently producing ethanol at a high productivity consisting of using a coryneform bacterium which has been transformed by a DNA containing a...
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7582458 |
Fermentation processes and compositions
The present invention provides improved fermentation processes, including for use in an ethanol production process. The improved fermentation processes include applying at least one fatty acid...
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7579177 |
Alcohol product processes
The present invention relates to processes for production of an alcohol product from granular starch comprising a pre-treatment at an elevated temperature below the initial gelatinization...
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7569379 |
Pentose-fermentative transformed zymobacter microorganisms
This invention provides transformed microorganisms which can produce ethanol from pentose, by introducing pentose metabolizing enzymes into microorganisms belonging to genus Zymobacter which...
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7563607 |
Acid fungal protease in fermentation of insoluble starch substrates
The invention is directed to methods of producing ethanol and decreasing residual starch production in a no cook fermentation comprising contacting granular starch containing substrates with a...
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7544495 |
Methods for producing ethanol and methane from biomass
The present invention relates to methods for producing ethanol and methane from biomass. The clear phase of a pulp obtained by fermentation of milled biomass is used for obtaining methane gas for...
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7527951 |
Engineering fungi for the utilisation of L-arabinose
A fungal microorganism can be engineered by means of genetic engineering to utilise L-arabinose. The genes of the L-arabinose pathway, which were unknown, i.e. L-arabinitol 4-dehydrogenase and...
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7527941 |
Process for producing ethyl alcohol from cellulosic materials
A method for producing ethanol from cellulose, the method including the steps of hydrolyzing said cellulose with enzymes produced by ethanologenic microorganisms to form a fermentable sugar or...
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7524418 |
Process for producing ethanol and for energy recovery
The present invention is directed to a process for the production of ethanol and energy. The process includes the steps of fermenting a corn mash in an aqueous medium to produce a beer. Next, the...
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7510857 |
Thermostable cellulase and methods of use
A Clostridium thermocellum thermostable cellulase enzyme with both endocellulase activity and exocellulase activity that is able to degrade cellulose in the absence of scaffolding and other...
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7507554 |
Process for the production of ethanol from algae
The present invention describes a process for the production of ethanol by harvesting starch-accumulating filament-forming or colony-forming algae to form a biomass, initiating cellular decay of...
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7504245 |
Biomass conversion to alcohol using ultrasonic energy
A method comprising applying ultrasonic energy to a biomass to alcohol production process is provided. In one embodiment the alcohol production process is an ethanol production process. In one...
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7494792 |
Process for the production of cellulolytic and hemicellulolytic enzymes using distillation residues from the ethanolic fermentation of enzymatic hydrolyzates of (ligno)cellulosic materials
A process for producing cellulolytic and/or hemicellulolytic enzymes uses the residue from the ethanolic fermentation of enzymatic hydrolyzates of cellulosic or ligno-cellulosic materials. This...
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7494675 |
Process for the production of animal feed and ethanol and novel animal feed
A method for the production of ethanol and a modified animal feed is provided. The method replaces the starch in known corn-based animal feed with biomass fiber treated to make it more digestible...
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7488390 |
Corn and fiber refining
Plant materials such as corn kernels which contain starch and fiber comprising cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, and pectin are refined. The starch, cellulose, hemicellulose, and pectin are...
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7465791 |
Continuous counter-current organosolv processing of lignocellulosic feedstocks
A modular process for organosolv fractionation of lignocellulosic feedstocks into component parts and further processing of said component parts into at least fuel-grade ethanol and four classes of...
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7452425 |
Corn refining process
A grain containing starch, such as corn, is refined. The grain is steeped in water at a temperature of about 125 to 160° F., which water is essentially free of sulfurous acid and contains recycled...
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7429476 |
Acid fungal proteases
The present invention is directed to novel acid proteases and more specifically to NSP24 family proteases and NSP25 family proteases including biologically active fragments thereof and to nucleic...
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7413882 |
Methods for degrading or converting plant cell wall polysaccharides
The present invention relates to methods for converting plant cell wall polysaccharides into one or more products, comprising: treating the plant cell wall polysaccharides with an effective amount...
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7393669 |
Metabolically engineered micro-organisms having improved galactose uptake
A recombinant prototrophic micro-organism such as a yeast is provided which over-expresses the activity of an enzyme catalysing the conversion of glucose-1 phosphate to glucose-6 phosphate in the...
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7381551 |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant
The present invention relates to a method for improved ethanol production from xylose utilizing strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae comprising genes for overexpression of xylose reductase, xylitol...
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7381550 |
Integrated process for producing “clean beef” (or milk), ethanol, cattle feed and bio-gas/bio-fertilizer
An ethanol unit and anaerobic digestion/bio-fertilizer unit are integrated with a cattle feedlot (or dairy operation), wherein a continuous, balanced process yields a sanitary, low- to...
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7351559 |
Process for producing ethanol
A process for producing ethanol including a combination of biochemical and synthetic conversions results in high yield ethanol production with concurrent production of high value coproducts. An...
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7348168 |
Polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase II activity and polynucleotides encoding same
The present invention relates to polypeptides having cellobiohydrolase II activity and polynucleotides having a nucleotide sequence, which encodes for the polypeptides. The invention also relates...
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7344876 |
Kluyveromyces strains metabolizing cellulosic and hemicellulosic materials
This invention relates to the use of microorganisms for the generation of ethanol from lignocellulosic waste materials. Yeast strains of the genus Kluyveromyces which have the capability to...
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7344871 |
BGL5 β-glucosidase and nucleic acids encoding the same
The present invention provides a novel β-glucosidase nucleic acid sequence, designated bgl5, and the corresponding BGL5 amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host...
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7326551 |
Cloning and sequencing of pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) genes from bacteria and uses therefor
The invention provides isolated nucleic acids molecules which encode pyruvate decarboxylase enzymes having improved decarboxylase activity, substrate affinity, thermostability, and activity at...
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7326548 |
Polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
The present invention relates to polypeptides having glucoamylase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding said polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors,...
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7323322 |
Ethanol production from transformed Zymobacter microorganisms
This invention provides transformed microorganisms which can produce ethanol from cellooligosaccharide, by introducing β-glucosidase gene by recombinant DNA method, into microorganisms belonging...
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7312055 |
Hybrid enzymes
The present invention relates to a hybrid enzyme comprising at least one carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and at least the catalytic module of a glucoamylase amino acid sequence. The...
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7309602 |
Compositions and methods for producing fermentation products and residuals
The present invention provides compositions and methods designed to increase value output of a fermentation reaction. In particular, the present invention provides a business method of increasing...
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7309592 |
Ethanol production from biological wastes
The invention provides methods, apparatuses, and kits for producing ethanol and other alcohols. The methods involve fermenting organic material in a fermentation mixture to a biogas comprising...
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7297236 |
Ethanol distillation process
A process arrangement for distilling fuel grade ethanol includes a fermentation portion, a distillation portion, a condensation and dehydration portion, a separation and drying portion and an...
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7285403 |
Xylose-fermenting recombinant yeast strains
Disclosed are xylose-fermenting recombinant yeast strains expressing xylose reductase, xylitol dehydrogenase, and xylulokinase and having reduced expression of PHO13 or a PHO13 ortholog, as well as...
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7285402 |
Methods for increasing the production of ethanol from microbial fermentation
A stable continuous method for producing ethanol from the anaerobic bacterial fermentation of a gaseous substrate containing at least one reducing gas involves culturing a fermentation bioreactor...
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7273742 |
BGL3 beta-glucosidase and nucleic acids encoding the same
The present invention provides a novel β-glucosidase nucleic acid sequence, designated bgl3, and the corresponding BGL3 amino acid sequence. The invention also provides expression vectors and host...
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7244597 |
Secondary liquefaction in ethanol production
The invention relates to a method of producing ethanol by fermentation, said method comprising a secondary liquefaction step in the presence of a thermostable acid alpha-amylase or, a thermostable...
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7223575 |
Zymomonas pentose-sugar fermenting strains and uses thereof
Disclosed in the present invention is a Zymomonas integrant and derivatives of these integrants that posses the ability to ferment pentose into ethanol. The genetic sequences encoding for the...
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7189552 |
Thermostable alpha-amylases
An isolated polynucleotide comprising an open reading frame encoding a polypeptide having alpha-amylase activity, the polypeptide selected from the group consisting of: a) a polypeptide comprising...
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7189306 |
Process of treating lignocellulosic material to produce bio-ethanol
This invention relates to a process of treating a lignocellulosic material to produce bio-ethanol. The process includes the steps of: (a) exposing the lignocellulosic material to conditions...
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7172894 |
Reductase gene and use of the same
A gene containing a DNA having the nucleotide sequence encoding any one of the amino acid sequences of the following (a) to (e):
(a) an amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 1; (b) an...
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7138257 |
Method for producing ethanol by using corn flours
A method for producing ethanol starting from corn flours, which provides for the milling of the corn, the separation of the light fractions (bran), a first refining of the milled fractions, a first...
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7129069 |
Hybrid enzymes
The present invention relates to a hybrid enzyme comprising at least one carbohydrate-binding module amino acid sequence and at least the catalytic module of a glucoamylase amino acid sequence. The...
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7109005 |
Process for the simultaneous production of xylitol and ethanol
Effective processes are provided for the production of xylitol and ethanol and other products from solutions derived from lignocellulose-containing material in biomass. The solutions can be...
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7102057 |
Self-processing plants and plant parts
The invention provides polynucleotides, preferably synthetic polynucleotides, which encode processing enzymes that are optimized for expression in plants. The polynucleotides encode mesophilic,...
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