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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2013
Applicant:
Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Inventor:
Jonathan Richard Mielenz, Rockwood, TN (US);
Assignee:
UT-BATTELLE, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/20 (2006.01); C12P 39/00 (2006.01); C12P 7/10 (2006.01); C12P 7/14 (2006.01); C12P 7/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 39/00 (2013.01); C12N 1/20 (2013.01); C12P 7/10 (2013.01); C12P 7/14 (2013.01); C12P 7/54 (2013.01); C12P 2203/00 (2013.01); Y02E 50/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method of converting biomass to biofuel, and particularly to a consolidated bioprocessing method using a co-culture of thermophilic and extremely thermophilic microorganisms which collectively can ferment the hexose and pentose sugars produced by degradation of cellulose and hemicelluloses at high substrate conversion rates. A culture medium therefor is also provided as well as use of the methods to produce and recover cellulosic ethanol.