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7622285 |
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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7598069 |
Enzymatic hydrolysis of biomasses having a high dry matter (DM) content
Disclosed are processes for liquefaction and saccharification of polysacharide containing biomasses having high dry matter content (>20%) and preferably possessing large average particle size....
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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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7569399 |
Multiplex flow assays preferably with magnetic particles as solid phase
Heterogeneous assays for different analytes in a single biological sample are performed simultaneously in a multiplexed assay that combines flow cytometry with the use of magnetic particles as the...
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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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7514247 |
Systems and processes for cellulosic ethanol production
A cellulosic ethanol production process. An implementation of a process for producing fuel ethanol and biodiesel from cellulose may include: providing a raw cellulose stream by mixing a waste...
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7514246 |
Methods for increasing starch levels using sonication
A system comprising one or more transducers and an alcohol production facility having a liquid medium processing stream, the alcohol production facility adapted for use with the one or more...
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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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7507391 |
Process and apparatus for the production of sulphur oxides
Sulphur oxides are generated from a liquid stream of hydrogen sulphide by feeding the liquid stream to a vacuum stripper where the stream is contacted with a stripping gas including steam under...
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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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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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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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6849434 |
Ethanol production in recombinant hosts
The subject invention concerns the transformation of Gram-positive bacteria with heterologous genes which confer upon these microbes the ability to produce ethanol as a fermentation product....
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6846657 |
Process for the simultaneous production of xylitol and ethanol
The invention relates to a process for the simultaneous production of xylitol and ethanol from a hydrolyzed lignocellulose-containing material starting. The starting material is fermented with a...
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6737258 |
Process for the conversion of and aqueous biomass hydrolyzate into fuels or chemicals by the selective removal of fermentation inhibitors
A process of making a fuel or chemical from a biomass hydrolyzate is provided which comprises the steps of providing a biomass hydrolyzate, adjusting the pH of the hydrolyzate, contacting a metal...
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6660506 |
Ethanol production with dilute acid hydrolysis using partially dried lignocellulosics
A process of converting lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol, comprising hydrolyzing lignocellulosic materials by subjecting dried lignocellulosic material in a reactor to a catalyst comprised of a...
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6518050 |
Process for producing and extracting aromatic compounds
The invention relates to a means for enhancing the value of distillation residues of fermentation products and in particular, a process for producing compounds of economic interest from these...
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6333181 |
Ethanol production from lignocellulose
This invention presents a method of improving enzymatic degradation of lignocellulose, as in the production of ethanol from lignocellulosic material, through the use of ultrasonic treatment. The...
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6258175 |
Method to produce fermentable sugars from a lignocellulose material
A method is presented that will produce fermentable sugars from a lignocellulose material employing concentrated sulfuric acid to dissolve cellulose and hemicellulose in a lignocellulose material...
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6251643 |
Method for using a vegetable biomass and a screw press to carry out said method
A process and apparatus for recovering organic and inorganic matter from waste material wherein the waste material is sterilized and solid organic matter becomes soft when subjected to heat and...
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6187583 |
Agglutination reaction and separation vessel
A vessel for conducting blood cell agglutination assays is disclosed. A barrier retains reactants in an upper chamber during incubation, then, in response to a force, permits reagents to enter a...
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6090595 |
Pretreatment process for conversion of cellulose to fuel ethanol
An improved pretreatment of cellulosic feedstocks, to enable economical ethanol production by enzyme treatment. The improved pretreatment comprises choosing either a feedstock with a ratio of...
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6054302 |
High solids, single phase process for preparing enzyme-converted starches
A high solids, enzyme conversion process for preparing an enzyme-converted starch is carried out by adding to a modified or unmodified starch, preferably a granular starch, water and an enzyme in...
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6015699 |
Process for the production of alcohol
The subject invention relates to an improved process for the production of alcohol which obviates the drawbacks and limitations of the hitherto known process, comprises growing a yeast in a...
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5932456 |
Production of ethanol and other fermentation products from biomass
A method and apparatus for the production of ethanol and other fermentation products including citric acid, butanol and isopropanol from non-virgin biomass having deleterious materials therein is...
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5916787 |
Ethanol production in gram-positive microbes
The subject invention concerns the transformation of Gram-positive bacteria with heterologous genes which confer upon these microbes the ability to produce ethanol as a fermentation product....
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5849984 |
Method and system for treating waste nitrocellulose
A method for treating waste nitrocellulose, the method comprising the steps f treating nitrocellulose with acid in a hydrolysis process to break the nitrocellulose down to glucose, recovering a...
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5843760 |
Single zymomonas mobilis strain for xylose and arabinose fermentation
This invention relates to single microorganisms which normally do not ferment pentose sugars which are genetically altered to ferment the pentose sugars, xylose and arabinose, to produce ethanol,...
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5837506 |
Continuous process for making ethanol
An improved continuous process for producing ethanol from cellulosic materials employs an intermittently agitated, perpetually fed, solids retaining reactor vessel. Cellulosic substrate, catalysts...
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5766895 |
Method for production of ethyl alcohol
The invention describes a method for the economic production of ethyl alcohol involving dehydration of the alcohol in an adsorption-desorption process using ion exchange resins which have been...
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5726053 |
Recombinant Zymomonas for pentose fermentation
The invention relates to microorganisms which normally do not ferment pentose sugar and which are genetically altered to ferment pentose sugar to produce ethanol, and fermentation processes...
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5712133 |
Pentose fermentation by recombinant zymomonas
The invention relates to microorganisms which normally do not ferment pentose sugar and which are genetically altered to ferment pentose sugar to produce ethanol, and fermentation processes...
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5688674 |
Continuous fermentation process for the production of metabolities using a moving filter
A metabolite, e.g., ethanol, is continuously produced from low cost carbohydrate substrates by a process which comprises pulverizing the carbohydrate substrate; liquefying and saccharifying the...
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5677154 |
Production of ethanol from biomass
A method and apparatus for the production of ethanol from non-virgin biomass having deleterious materials therein is provided. The deleterious materials prevent or retard the production of ethanol...
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5620877 |
Method of fermenting sugars resulting from strong acid hydrolysis
An economically viable method of fermenting a mixture of sugars resulting from the acid hydrolysis of material containing cellulose and hemicellulose allows for the simultaneous fermentation of...
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5578472 |
Process for the production of ethanol from microalgae
The present invention provides a process and system for the production of ethanol wherein a microalga capable of accumulating starch in the cells thereof is cultured, the culture solution...
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5554520 |
Ethanol production by recombinant hosts
Novel plasmids comprising genes which code for the alcohol dehydrogenase and pyruvate decarboxylase are have been transformed with genes coding for alcohol dehydrogenase and pyruvate. By virtue of...
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5407827 |
Pulp bleaching with thermo stable xylanase of thermomonosporafusca
Bleaching pulp with an enzyme system, containing thermostatic xylanose activity, obtained from a strain of Thermomonospora fusca and more specifically from a new strain with the designation KW3 and...
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5407817 |
Municipal solid waste processing facility and commercial ethanol production process
A method of processing waste is disclosed wherein tile municipal solid waste is segregated and processed to recover reusable rubber, metal, plastic, glass and tile remaining organic portion of the...
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5372939 |
Combined enzyme mediated fermentation of cellulous and xylose to ethanol by Schizosaccharoyces pombe, cellulase, β-glucosidase, and xylose isomerase
A process for producing ethanol from mixed sugar streams from pretreated biomass comprising xylose and cellulose using enzymes to convert these substrates to fermentable sugars; selecting and...
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5348871 |
Process for converting cellulosic materials into fuels and chemicals
A process for converting cellulosic materials, such as waste paper, into fuels and chemicals utilizing enzymatic hydrolysis of the major constituent of paper, cellulose. A waste paper slurry is...
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5340729 |
Method for producing spagyric essences from plants
A method for producing spagyric essences in the form of standardized products with defined alcohol contents in respect to the dried residue of plants used in said method. The components of a...
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5266486 |
Method and apparatus for detecting biological activities in a specimen
A method, a sensor and apparatus for detecting biological activities in a specimen, for example in a blood sample, are provided in which a sealable container is sealed with a culture medium therein...
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5258293 |
Continuous process for ethanol production from lignocellulosic materials without mechanical agitation
An improved and highly productive method of continuously producing ethanol from lignocellulosic substrates is provided. The method involves providing a suitable microbial system within a reaction...
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5231017 |
Process for producing ethanol
The invention relates to a process for producing ethanol from raw materials, that contain fermentable sugars or constituents which can be converted into sugars, comprising the steps of: ...
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5215902 |
Process for recovering alcohol with energy integration
A process for recovering alcohol by a continuous process employing fermentation, solvent extraction of the alcohol product, extractive distillation of the alcohol-solvent extract to provide water...
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5198074 |
Process to produce a high quality paper product and an ethanol product from bamboo
A method of producing high quantities of ethanol and a high quality pulp to produce a variety of papers. The method comprises preparing the bamboo by chipping, shredding and washing. This bamboo...
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5182199 |
Thermophilic ethanol production in a two-stage closed system
Production of ethanol by a process in which a strain of Bacillus stearothermophilus or other thermophilic, facultatively anaerrobic bacterium is selected for the characteristics of fermenting...
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5135861 |
Method for producing ethanol from biomass
Biomass slurry is hydrolzyed in a fuel fired hydrolysis heater. When the biomass is fruit waste, the organic acid in the waste is used as the hydrolysis catalyst. When the biomass does not contain...
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5100791 |
Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) using cellobiose fermenting yeast Brettanomyces custersii
A process for producing ethanol from plant biomass includes forming a substrate from the biomass with the substrate including hydrolysates of cellulose and hemicellulose. A species of the yeast...
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