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- Patent Title: Fermentation apparatus that uses biomass as feedstock
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Application No.: US13982645Application Date: 2012-03-23
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Publication No.: US09657262B2Publication Date: 2017-05-23
- Inventor: Akira Nishimura , Takahiro Yamauchi , Kentaro Ogura , Haruka Nishimoto , Hiroyuki Kurihara , Atsushi Minamino , Hideo Suzuki , Gaku Kondo
- Applicant: Akira Nishimura , Takahiro Yamauchi , Kentaro Ogura , Haruka Nishimoto , Hiroyuki Kurihara , Atsushi Minamino , Hideo Suzuki , Gaku Kondo
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
- Priority: JP2011-066768 20110324
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/057566 WO 20120323
- International Announcement: WO2012/128358 WO 20120927
- Main IPC: C12M1/00
- IPC: C12M1/00 ; C13B20/16 ; C13K1/04 ; C12M1/33 ; C12P19/02 ; C12P19/14 ; C12P7/10

Abstract:
An apparatus for treating a biomass feedstock at a high temperature, includes a cooling device 90 for cooling a biomass treated liquid at a high temperature; an enzymatic saccharification tank 103 for saccharifying a cooled treated liquid 101B with an enzyme; a solid-liquid separation apparatus 112 for removing water-slightly soluble substances contained in a saccharide solution 104 taken out from the enzymatic saccharification tank 103 and a foreign substance removing unit 113 provided with a microfiltration (MF) membrane 113a; a dilution tank 132, disposed downstream of the foreign substance removing unit 113, for diluting the saccharide solution from which the water-slightly soluble substances are removed by adding water thereto; a water separation unit 116, provided with a reverse osmosis (RO) membrane 116a, for removing water 114 from the diluted saccharide solution so as to obtain concentrated saccharide solution 115.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130337552A1 FERMENTATION APPARATUS THAT USES BIOMASS AS FEEDSTOCK Public/Granted day:2013-12-19
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