Phibro Animal Health Corporation

Polymer Ventures, Inc.

Phibro Animal Health Co.

Chemical Specialties, Inc.

Viance, LLC

Polymer Venture Inc.

David Alan Fowlie

Christopher B Murphy

Kevin J Archer

Alan F Preston

Wayne Mattsfield

Dennis P Bayrock

Pulse dosing is used to administer a cleaning formulation into a fluid process stream flowing through structural components of a processing facility. The fluid process stream may contain corn, corn-derived products, or a combination thereof, or the fluid process stream may contain a process condensate, a rinse fluid, a cleaning fluid or any combination thereof. The processing facility may be an ethanol processing plant, a protein processing plant, a corn oil processing plant, an ethanol and corn oil processing plant, an ethanol and protein processing plant, or an ethanol, corn oil and protein processing plant. Pulse dosing may include administering the cleaning formulation into the fluid process stream for a period of x seconds every y minutes, with no administration of the cleaning formulation between the periods of x seconds.

Method and composition for pulse dose cleaning of process streams

Compositions for increasing corn oil recovery and embodiments of methods for using the composition for corn oil separation are described. The composition(s) incorporate an admixture that includes a polymer selected from a polyglycol ester, a polyethyleneoxide-polypropyleneoxide block copolymer, a poloxamine, or a mixture thereof. The methods include admixing the compositions with a process stream for, for example, the extraction of oil from milled corn and residues from a fermentation step, including stillage (e.g., thin stillage or mid stillage), distiller's wet grain, distiller's dry grain and distiller's dry grains with solubles.

Oil recovery aid

A method of controlling microorganisms such asmetabolism in mash in an ethanol production facility includes adding to the mash an effective amount to control such microorganisms of one or more of a substantially water insoluble pristinamycin-type antimicrobial agent, a substantially water insoluble polyether ionophore antimicrobial agent, or both, wherein the term 'substantially water insoluble' means the antimicrobial agent has a solubility in pure water at 20&#xb0; C. of 0.1 grams per liter or less, and wherein at least a portion of the substantially water insoluble antimicrobial agent(s) is added to the mash in the form of: 1) an organic liquid comprising at least one organic solvent having said substantially water insoluble antimicrobial agent(s) dissolved therein, said organic liquid advantageously comprising more than 1 gram per liter of said antimicrobial agent(s); 2) particles comprising said substantially water insoluble antimicrobial agent(s) and having a weight mean average diameter of less than 5 microns; or 3) both.

Use of predissolved pristinamycin-type and polyether ionophore type antimicrobial agents in the production of ethanol

A treated wood-based composite is formed by treating a green wood furnish with an amount of a treating agent effective to increase the value of the resulting wood-based composite. The treating agent can be, for example, a fire retardant, a wood preservative, a dye, a pigment, a stain, bleach, a water repellant, a drying oil, or a combination thereof. The treated green wood furnish is blended with a binder and then bound, as by pressing the furnish, to form a non-leaching fire-retardant wood based composite. Another aspect of the invention is the product formed according to the preceding process. The addition of the treating agent to green wood chips, without the need to dry them to low moisture content, is believed to be novel.

Methods of incorporating treatment agents into wood based composite products

The invention is a wood composite including wood particles, a binder, at least one wood stabilizer, and optionally other ingredients. Examples of the wood stabilizer are an ammoniacal wood stabilizer or ammoniacal copper dimethyl glyoxime. The wood stabilizer is present in an amount effective to reduce the swelling value of the wood composite to less than that of an analogous wood composite not treated with the wood stabilizer. A method for making wood composites and the product of that method are also disclosed. The method includes providing green wood particles and applying to them a wood stabilizer as described above, preferably without an intervening drying step. It is contemplated that the wood stabilizer can be applied in an amount effective to at least substantially preserve the resulting wood composite against at least one of rot, termites, and carpenter ants. While or after applying the stabilizer, a water repellant material is applied to the wood particles. The treated wood particles are then formed into a wood composite.

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Concord, NC, United States of America

David Alan Fowlie