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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2009
Chie Ying Lee, Fremont, CA (US);
Chie Ying Lee, Fremont, CA (US);
Fluid-Quip, Inc., Springfield, OH (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to improvements in the steeping process of corn wet milling and a steeping system therefore. The process for steeping corn includes subjecting corn situated in a battery of no less than four steeping tanks to a countercurrent flow of steep water. The first steeping tank defines a new corn receiving tank and the last steeping tank defines a discharge tank. The countercurrent flow of steep water includes sulfur dioxide and flows in a direction from the discharge tank to the new corn receiving tank. The sulfur dioxide concentration in the steep water of the first steeping tank is greater than the sulfur dioxide concentrations in a plurality of the remainder of the steeping tanks, which maintain sulfur dioxide levels that are substantially equivalent.