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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Munir Cheryan, Urbana, IL (US);
Assignee:
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 3/521 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 3/521 ;
Abstract
The method of the invention uses raw corn, or a corn by-product as a source. The source is mixed with an alcohol to produce an alcohol-corn slurry. Centrifugation or filtration produces a clear filtrate from the alcohol-corn slurry. A membrane filtration step is then used to separate purified xanthophylls. Other steps may be combined with the basic process to produce additional corn products, such as oil and zein.