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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2015
Butamax Advanced Biofuels Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Adam Bernfeld, Newark, DE (US);
Keith H. Burlew, Middletown, DE (US);
Anthony R. Calabria, Wilmington, DE (US);
Duncan Coffey, Hockessin, DE (US);
Benjamin Fuchs, Wilmington, DE (US);
Ana Paula Goes, Barueri, BR;
Adam David Henry, Kennett Square, PA (US);
Walter Tamulis, San Diego, CA (US);
Joseph J. Zaher, Newark, DE (US);
Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to methods, approaches, devices, equipment, and systems for minimizing or reducing contamination in facilities implementing fermentation or distillation processes. In embodiments, the facility is a biofuel plant that produces fermentation product such as product alcohol like butanol. In some embodiments, the methods, approaches, devices, equipment, and systems are operable to implement clean in place contamination (CIP) mitigation techniques that can also include sterilize in place (SIP) mitigation techniques to decontaminate equipment including surfaces of the equipment that come in contact with materials used in the production of product alcohols. Other cleaning and contamination minimizing techniques are also described.