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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2023
Applicant:
Verbio Vereinigte Bioenergie Ag, Liepzig, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
VERBIO VEREINIGTE BIOENERGIE AG, Liepzig, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/10 (2006.01); C10L 5/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 7/10 (2013.01); C10L 5/445 (2013.01); C10L 2200/0476 (2013.01); C12P 2201/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods combine the operations of a bioethanol production unit and a biogas unit and comprise: (a) mashing corn meal from a dry milling step with at least 0.1 t of dry matter in the form of whole stillage and at least 0.1 mof outflow from the biogas unit per tonne of corn meal; (b) feeding the mash from (a) to a cooking stage with mash temperatures below the gelatinization temperature of the starch in the corn meal, followed by an ethanol-forming fermentation step and then feeding the fermented mash to a distillation step; and (c) feeding the whole stillage from (b) to the mashing step in (a) and to the biogas unit.