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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2023
Icm, Inc., Colwich, KS (US);
Jeremy Edward Javers, St. Joseph, MO (US);
Christopher Riley William Gerken, Helena, MO (US);
Charles C Gallop, Gower, MO (US);
Samuel Vander Griend, Wichita, KS (US);
Jesse Spooner, Easton, MO (US);
Jonathan Phillip Licklider, Cosby, MO (US);
Laercio Malburg, Plate City, MO (US);
Ryan Edward Hoefling, Faucett, MO (US);
Douglas Bernard Rivers, St. Joseph, MO (US);
Kurt A Dieker, Wichita, KS (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes a method for retrofitting an existing plant. The method includes adding a fractionation process to separate bran from other components in a feedstock to the existing plant, adding a pretreatment process downstream of the fractionation process, the pretreatment process configured to receive the bran and utilize water and heat to break down cellulose and hemicellulose in the bran; adding a hydrolysis and cellulosic fermentation process downstream of the pretreatment process and upstream of the fermentation process to hydrolyze the bran with a cellulase enzyme complex cocktail and to ferment with an organism to produce cellulosic beer; and combining the cellulosic beer with starch from the grain in the existing plant into the fermentation process to increase overall yield per feedstock unit in the existing plant.