Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Spent grain fuel product and process
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Application No.: US14756904Application Date: 2015-10-28
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Publication No.: US10364400B2Publication Date: 2019-07-30
- Inventor: Geoffrey L. Larson , Curtis Holmes , Brandon Michael Smith , David D. Wilson
- Applicant: AKBEV GROUP, LLC
- Applicant Address: US AK Juneau
- Assignee: AKBEV GROUP, LLC
- Current Assignee: AKBEV GROUP, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AK Juneau
- Agency: Emerson, Thomson & Bennett, LLC
- Agent Roger D. Emerson
- Main IPC: C10L5/44
- IPC: C10L5/44 ; C10L9/00 ; C12C1/00 ; C10L5/36 ; F23B30/00 ; C10L5/42

Abstract:
A process of making a fuel product from spent grain from a beer brewing process. In the brewing process, the grain is pulverized to a particle size whose mean particle size is approximately 0.25 mm to 0.6 mm with less than 1% greater than 2 mm. After the brewing sugars are extracted from the grain, the spent grain is pressed against a filter to reduce moisture below sixty-five percent (65%), and then the grain is dried to further reduce its moisture to less than ten percent (10%). The dried spent grain, after the aforementioned processing, is fed into a combustion chamber for a steam boiler that is used for beer brewing, and the spent grain is separated during combustion by agitation such as spraying of the grain in the combustion chamber.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170247623A9 Spent grain fuel product and process Public/Granted day:2017-08-31
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