Thomas E Robb

Address:

521 E Santa Fe Trl, Kansas City, MO 64145

Phone:

5733463150

VIN:

2CNDL73F076099434

Make:

CHEV

Model:

EQUI

Year:

2007

US Patent:

20110008489, Jan 13, 2011

Filed:

Nov 26, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/747992

Inventors:

Thomas W. Robb - Overland Park KS, US
Praveen V. Vadlani - Manhattan KS, US
Inaki Mielgo - Sevilla, ES
Ronald L. Madl - Manhattan KS, US

Assignee:

ABENGOA BIOENERGY NEW TECHNOLOGIES, INC. - Chesterfield MO

International Classification:

A23K 1/14

US Classification:

426 18, 426656, 426601

Abstract:

A process for improving the nutritional quality of a feed co-product, resulting from the fermentation of a grain, sugar beets, or sugar cane to produce ethanol. The process comprises combining water, a source of nitrogen, a source of phosphorus, a feed co-product comprising a cellulose and/or a hemi-cellulose, and a microbe to form a fluid fermentation mixture suitable for submerged fermentation, wherein the feed co-product is derived from the fermentation of a grain, sugar beet, or sugar cane to produce ethanol and wherein the microbe is a microbe capable of breaking down the cellulose and/or the hemi-cellulose to one or more sugars and then utilizing the sugars to proliferate; fermenting the fluid fermentation mixture such that the microbe converts at least a portion of the cellulose and/or the hemi-cellulose into at least one sugar and uses the sugar to proliferate thereby increasing the concentration of microbes in the fermentation mixture.