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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2013
Verenium Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Arne Solbak, San Diego, CA (US);
Brian Steer, San Diego, CA (US);
Mark Dycaico, San Diego, CA (US);
Katie A. Kline, San Diego, CA (US);
Axel Trefzer, San Diego, CA (US);
Thomas Todaro, San Diego, CA (US);
Fatima El-Farrah, San Diego, CA (US);
Alberto Alvarado, San Diego, CA (US);
Gerhard Frey, San Diego, CA (US);
Verenium Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for using a thermostable phytase for eliminating or reducing phytic acid or salts of phytic acid in an alcohol production process is disclosed. The phytase can be added anywhere in the alcohol production process including a feedstock, a hammer mill, a slurry tank, a jet cooker, a liquefaction, a mash cooker, a fermentation, a beer, a distillation system, a whole stillage, a centrifuge, a thin stillage, an evaporator, a condensate, a syrup, a wet grain, a drum dryer, a distillers dried grain, distillers solubles, distillers wet grain, condensed distillers solubles distillers dried grains with solubles a molecular sieves, or any combination thereof. The alcohol production process can be in an ethanol production plant; a spirit or a drinkable alcohol production plant; or a fuel ethanol plant.