CONDITIONING RAW WASTE INPUT FOR DIGESTION BY THERMOPHILIC AEROBIC MICROORGANISMS

• US 3,838,198 A
• Filed: 03/01/1972
• Issued: 09/24/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Biological Energy Corporation
• Original Assignee: Bellamy W, Chakrabarty A
• Inventors: BELLAMY W, CHAKRABARTY A
• Application Number:
  US05/230,668
• Time in Patent Office: 937 Days
• US Class Current: 426/53
• CPC Class Codes: A23K 10/12 by fermentation of natural products, e.g. of vegetable material, animal waste material or biomass

Abstract

ANIMALS WASTE, PARTICULARLY EXCREMENT FROM RUMINANTS, TO BE SUBJECTED TO DEGRADATION BY THERMOPHILIC AEROBIC MICROORGANISMS IS SUBJECTED TO PRETREATMENT IN WHICH THE RAW WASTE IS MIXED WITH WASTE LIQUOR 8FROM THE REACTED WASTE MIXTURE LEAVING THE THERMOPHILIC AEROBIC ORGACHAMBER) AND IS HEATED TO A TEMPERATURE IN THE RANGE OF FROM ABOUT 75* C. TO ABOUT 85* C. THIS PRETREATMENT IS OF PARTICULAR ADVANTAGE WHEN THE THERMOPHILIC ORGANISMS EMPLOYED FOR THE DIGESTION ARE PRODUCTIVE OF SOLUBLE ( DETACHED) EXTRA-CELLULAR ENZYMESE THAT WILL DEGRADE CELLULOSE.

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