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Increasing rate of microbial fermentation with zeolites

  • US 3,224,946 A
  • Filed: 09/21/1962
  • Issued: 12/21/1965
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1962
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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11. A PROCESS FOR PLACING A WATER-INSOLUBLE SUBSTRATE INTO A HIGHLY DIVIDED MOLECULAR STATE IN AN AQUEOUS MEDIUM AND FOR INCREASING THE METABOLIC ATTACK OF A MICROORGANISM UPON SAID SUBSTRATE WHICH PROCESS COMPRISES PRISES PLACING AN AQUEOUS MEDIUMCONTAINING NUTRIENTS FOR SAID MICROORGNAISM IN A VESSSEL;

  • EFFECTING THE DIVISION OF THE SAID WATER-INSOLUBLE SUBSTRATE INTO A HIGHLY DIVIDED, MOLECULAR STATE BY CONTACTING THE SSAID SUBSTRATE WITH A ZEOLITE WHICH IS IN PULVERULENT FORM AND WHICH CONTAINS SIEVES IN THE ORDER OF SIZE FROMABOUT 3 ANGSTROM UNITS TO ABOUT 10 ANGSTROM UNITS AND WHICH OCCLUDES THE SAID WATER-INSOLUBLE SUBSTRATE;

    AND EFFECTING THE SAID METABOLIC ATTACK BY ALLOWING THE MICROORGANISM TO FEED ON THE RESULTANT HIGHLY DIVIDED SUBSTRATE.

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