Method for retrofitting an existing plant with a bran fractionation process

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PATENT NO 12163101
APP PUB NO 20230212471A1
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This disclosure describes a method for retrofitting an existing plant. The method includes adding a fractionation process to separate bran from other components in a feedstock to the existing plant, adding a pretreatment process downstream of the fractionation process, the pretreatment process configured to receive the bran and utilize water and heat to break down cellulose and hemicellulose in the bran; adding a hydrolysis and cellulosic fermentation process downstream of the pretreatment process and upstream of the fermentation process to hydrolyze the bran with a cellulase enzyme complex cocktail and to ferment with an organism to produce cellulosic beer; and combining the cellulosic beer with starch from the grain in the existing plant into the fermentation process to increase overall yield per feedstock unit in the existing plant.

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ICM INC310 NORTH FIRST STREET P O BOX 397 COLWICH KS 67030

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Dieker, Kurt A Wichita, US 14 269
Gallop, Charles C Gower, US 32 355
Gerken, Christopher Riley William Helena, US 14 80
Hoefling, Ryan Edward Faucett, US 3 17
Javers, Jeremy Edward St. Joseph, US 9 49
Licklider, Jonathan Phillip Cosby, US 2 8
Malburg, Laercio Plate City, US 2 9
Rivers, Douglas Bernard St. Joseph, US 2 9
Spooner, Jesse Easton, US 8 69
Vander, Griend Samuel Wichita, US 6 30

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