Cargill Inc.

Eniricerche S.p.a.

Enichem S.p.a

Luigi Nataloni

Joost Ketsman

Giampietro Borsotti

Ronny Leontina Marcel Vercauteren

Jos Willy Ghislain Corneel De Sadeleer

Frank Derez

Claudio Santini

Angelo Chianese

Tullio Pellizzo

Marco Stoller

Tiziano Furlan

Patrizia Tolomelli

Serena Bandini

Samuel Sanchez

A fructose in solid form containing a matrix and a plurality of carbohydrate crystals within said matrix, the matrix containing amorphous fructose and water, wherein the carbohydrate crystals comprise fructose and optionally one or more other carbohydrate(s), and optionally wherein the fructose in solid form is coated with a dry powder coating.

Semi-crystalline fructose in solid form and process for manufacturing the same

The invention relates to a process for purifying syrups. The process comprises removing charged components from the syrup by passing said syrup through a capacitive deionization cell. The present invention further relates to the use of capacitive deionization to recover charged components from syrups. In particular the syrups are mannose, fructose and sorbitol containing syrups.

Syrup purification by capacitive deionization

The present invention relates to a process for the liquefaction of starch present in a starch slurry comprising degraded starch and having a DE of from 0.05 to 9. Preferably, the invention relates to a process for the liquefaction of starch present in a starch slurry comprising degraded starch, said starch slurry having a high dry substance. Further preferably, the invention relates to a continuous process for liquefaction of starch present in a starch slurry comprising degraded starch and having a high dry substance.

Process for starch liquefaction

A process is disclosed for preparing alkyl glycosides of general formula (I), by reacting an alcohol with a reducing sugar or with an equivalent of the latter, in the presence of a binary catalyst formed by a strong organic acid and a weak, also organic, base, having a K.sub.a within the range of from 10.sup.-8 to 10.sup.-1.

Process for producing alkyl glycosides

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Bologna, Italy

Luigi Nataloni