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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120034667 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING AND PRODUCING ETHANOL AND OIL To provide a method for producing an ethanol which facilitates the processing of a solid component as a residue generated upon processing, while improving the recovery rate of heat energy contained in leftover food. The method for recovering and producing ethanol and oi... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120034648 | PENTOSE SUGAR FERMENTING CELL The invention relates to a cell which comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding a xylose isomerase, wherein the amino acid sequence of the xylose isomerase has at least about 70% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 3 and wherein the nucleot... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120009638 | SYNGAS CONVERSION METHOD USING ASYMMETRIC MEMBRANE AND ANAEROBIC MICROORGANISM A stable method for producing liquid products such as ethanol, propanol, butanol and other chemicals from syngas components that contacts CO or a mixture of CO2 and H2 with a highly porous side of an asymmetric membrane under anaerobic conditions a... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120009641 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CLARIFIED JUICE, PACKAGIBLE JUICE, ETHANOL AND SUGAR FROM SUGARCANE AND SYSTEM THEREOF The present invention provides a method and system for manufacturing clarified juice from sugarcane without using sulfitation process and with less heating. The method comprises step of steps of: washing sugarcane with water comprising biocide before passing through cut... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120003707 | Method for Injecting a Feed Gas Stream into a Vertically Extended Column of Liquid A process for conversion of syngas to liquid products that serve as surface acting agents uses the gas stream at a relatively low pressure to eliminate the use of a compressor. The process uses a liquid stream as the primary energy input to a gas injector that intensely... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120003705 | Biological Clean Fuel Processing Systems and Methods Methods and systems to achieve clean fuel processing systems in which carbon dioxide emissions (1) from fossil fuel consumption sources (2) may be processed in at least one processing reactor (4) containing a plurality of chemoautotrophic bacteria (... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120003652 | Essential genes encoding conserved metabolic pathway function in autotrophic solventogenic clostridial species Essential genes coding for the metabolic pathway of solventogenic autotrophic Clostridia were sequenced, and functionality was confirmed. The present invention utilizes a comparative inter-species approach to develop the minimum set of essential genes for metabolic func... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110318802 | THERMOPHILIC MICRO-ORGANISMS FOR ETHANOL PRODUCTION A thermophilic micro-organism comprising a modification that increases amylase expression and starch hydrolysis compared to wild-type, wherein the modification is insertion of a heterologous amylase gene.... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110318801 | XYLOSE UTILIZATION IN RECOMBINANT ZYMOMONAS Zymomonas expressing xylose isomerase from A. missouriensis was found to have improved xylose utilization, growth, and ethanol production when grown in media containing xylose. Xylose isomerases related to that of A. missouriensis were identified st... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110318790 | XYLOSE ISOMERASE GENES AND THEIR USE IN FERMENTATION OF PENTOSE SUGARS The present invention relates to eukaryotic cells which have the ability to isomerise xylose directly into xylulose. The cells have acquired this ability by transformation with nucleotide sequences coding for a xylose isomerase that has one or more specific sequence ele... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110318800 | INTEGRATED MECHANICAL VAPOR RECOMPRESSION (MVR) AND MEMBRANE VAPOR PERMEATION PROCESS FOR ETHANOL RECOVERY (ETHANOL DEHYDRATION) FROM FERMENTATION BROTH An apparatus and process is taught for the formation of ethanol from a fermentation medium in the absence of an ethanol concentration distillation step.... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110312052 | PROCESS FOR CELL-FREE PRODUCTION OF CHEMICALS An enzymatic process is described for the production of chemicals from carbon sources. In particular, according to one aspect, a process for the production of a target organic compound from a carbon source by a cell-free enzyme system is disclosed.... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110312044 | EXTRACTION SOLVENTS DERIVED FROM OIL FOR ALCOHOL REMOVAL IN EXTRACTIVE FERMENTATION In an alcohol fermentation process, oil derived from biomass is chemically converted into an extractant available for in situ removal of a product alcohol such as butanol from a fermentation broth. The glycerides in the oil can be chemically converted into a reaction pr... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110300585 | Systems And Methods For Altering Rates Of Enzymatic Processes The various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to compositions, systems, and methods for altering rates of catalysis. More particularly, the various embodiments of the present invention are directed toward compositions, systems, and methods for enzyma... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110300593 | OPTIMISED FERMENTATION MEDIA The invention relates to improvements in the production of alcohols by microbial fermentation, particularly to production of alcohols by microbial fermentation of a substrate comprising CO. It more particularly relates to the provision of an inorganic organic sulfur sou... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110294180 | SACCHAROMYCES STRAIN WITH ABILITY TO GROW ON PENTOSE SUGARS UNDER ANAEROBIC CULTIVATION CONDITIONS The invention relates to an improved Saccharomyces strain displaying improved viability and growth during anaerobic fermentation of pentose carbon sources such as xylose and producing fermentation products such as ethanol.... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110294177 | OPTIMISED FERMENTATION MEDIA The invention relates to improvements in the production of alcohols by microbial fermentation, particularly to production of alcohols by microbial fermentation of substrates comprising CO. It more particularly relates to the provision of an improved fermentation media, ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110294170 | Pentose Fermentation By a Recombinant Microorganism The present invention provides recombinant nucleic acid constructs comprising a xylose isomerase polynucleotide, a recombinant fungal host cell comprising a recombinant xylose isomerase polynucleotide, and related methods.... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110287501 | INCREASED ETHANOL PRODUCTION IN RECOMBINANT BACTERIA The invention pertains to a recombinant bacterium with enhanced ethanol production characteristics when cultivated in a growth medium comprising glycerol. The recombinant bacterium comprises an inserted heterologous gene encoding glycerol dehydrogenase, and/or an up-reg... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110281310 | MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR THE EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF ACETATE AND OTHER PRODUCTS The subject invention provides materials and methods wherein unique and advantageous combinations of gene mutations are used to direct carbon flow from sugars to a single product. The techniques of the subject invention can be used to obtain products from native pathway... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110281316 | BACILLUS BASED DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE Herein a Bacillus exosporium molecule delivery (BEMD) system that provides a means to deliver molecules of interest (MOIs) to an environment is disclosed. The system results in the display of MOIs on the exosporium surface of Bacillus family members such t... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110275127 | Process for Producing Ethanol A process for producing ethanol including a combination of biochemical and synthetic conversions results in high yield ethanol production with concurrent production of high value coproducts. An acetic acid intermediate is produced from carbohydrates, such as corn, using... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110275130 | FERMENTATIVE GLYCEROL-FREE ETHANOL PRODUCTION The present invention relates to a yeast cell, in particular a recombinant yeast cell, the cell lacking enzymatic activity needed for the NADH-dependent glycerol synthesis or the cell having a reduced enzymatic activity with respect to the NADH-dependent glycerol synthe... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110269202 | Genetically Engineered Yeast for the Production of Biofuels Compositions and methods are provided for generating biofuels by fermentation from carbon sources other than glucose using genetically engineered yeast strains. For example, a Saccharomyces strain which is capable of converting glucose to ethanol but not of metab... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110269201 | REDIRECTED BIOENERGETICS IN RECOMBINANT CELLULOLYTIC CLOSTRIDIUM MICROORGANISMS Compositions and methods are provided for redirecting metabolic solventogenesis pathways to enhance the product yield from fermentation of biomass. Clostridium microorganism pathways are modified to extend the growth phase and prevent inhibition of acetaldehyde w... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110269180 | Prokaryotic Xylose Isomerase for the Construction of Xylose Fermenting Yeasts The present invention relates to the use of nucleic acid molecules coding for a bacterial xylose isomerase (XI), preferably coming from Clostridium phytofermentans, for reaction/metabolization, particularly fermentation, of recombinant microorganisms of biomateri... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110269200 | Increased Ethanol Production By Genetic Engineering Of Microorganisms To Express Hemoglobin The present disclosure describes novel bacterial strains which express a pyruvate decarboxylase gene and at least one alcohol dehydrogenase gene from a bacteria of the genus Zymomonas and also express a hemoglobin gene from a bacteria of the genus Vitreoscilla... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110262983 | METABOLICALLY ENGINEERED YEASTS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ETHANOL AND OTHER PRODUCTS FROM XYLOSE AND CELLOBIOSE The present invention provides yeast cells that produce high concentrations of ethanol, culture media and bioreactors comprising the yeast cells, and methods for making and using the yeast cells in efficiently producing ethanol.... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110256597 | Membrane Supported Bioreactor for Conversion of Syngas Components to Liquid Products Ethanol and other liquid products are produced by contacting syngas components such as CO or a mixture of CO2 and H2 with a surface of a membrane under anaerobic conditions and transferring these components into contact with a biofilm on the opposi... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110256600 | Recombinant Microorganisms and Methods of Use Thereof The invention provides a recombinant microorganism capable of producing one or more products by fermentation of a substrate comprising CO, wherein the microorganisms has an increased tolerance to ethanol. The invention also provides, inter alia, methods for the producti... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110256601 | MODIFICATION OF HYDROGENASE ACTIVITIES IN THERMOPHILIC BACTERIA TO ENHANCE ETHANOL PRODUCTION Bacteria consume a variety of biomass-derived substrates and produce ethanol. Hydrogenase genes have been inactivated m Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum to generate mutant strains with reduced hydrogenase activities. One such mutant strain with both the ldh ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110250654 | MICROAEROBIC CULTURES FOR CONVERTING GLYCEROL TO CHEMICALS Glycerol or other reduced carbon sources may be used as a feedstock for the microbial production of chemical products under certain microaerobic conditions. For example, such production may occur under microaerobic or microrespiratory conditions in which electron accept... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110250664 | YEAST HAVING IMPROVED ETHANOL YIELD The present invention provides for a genetically-altered haploid yeast cell characterized by reduced activity or expression of FPS1, reduced activity or expression of glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase-1 (GPD1), reduced activity or expression of glycerol-3-phosphate deh... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110250665 | ETHANOL PRODUCTION PROCESS AND YEAST FOR ETHANOL PRODUCTION According to the present invention, ethanol production is carried out with the use of cellulose or cellobiose as a starting material at low cost. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of culturing a microorganism that is classified as a species selecte... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110250629 | ALCOHOL PRODUCTION PROCESS The invention relates to the microbial fermentation of gaseous substrates, particularly to methods of mitigating and/or reducing alcohol toxicity effects on a microbial culture at elevated alcohol concentrations during fermentation. The invention relates particularly to... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110244533 | FIBROUS MATERIALS AND COMPOSITES Fibrous materials, compositions that include fibrous materials, and uses of the fibrous materials and compositions are disclosed. For example, the fibrous materials can be operated on by a microorganism to produce ethanol or a by-product, such as a protein or lignin.... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110244538 | FERMENTATION OF GASEOUS SUBSTRATES The invention relates to the microbial fermentation of gaseous substrates, particularly to gas/liquid contact modules and bioreactors configured to improve the efficiency of fermentations, particularly microbial fermentations of substrates comprising CO. In a particular... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110244525 | MICROORGANISM EXPRESSING XYLOSE ISOMERASE The present invention relates to a transformed microorganism capable of (a) a higher xylose isomerase activity than the equivalent microorganism prior to transformation; and/or (b) a higher growth rate in or on a growth medium comprising xylose than the equivalent micro... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110244526 | ALPHA-AMYLASE BLENDS AND METHODS FOR USING SAID BLENDS The present invention relates to an alpha-amylase blend, including a B. stearothermophilus alpha-amylase (AmyS) wherein the amino acid at position S242 is substituted and a B. licheniformis alpha-amylase blends for starch liquefaction and saccharification,... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110236943 | BIOPROCESSING LIGNO-CELLULOSE INTO ETHANOL WITH RECOMBINANT CLOSTRIDIUM The present invention relates, inter alia, to recombinant Gram-positive Clostridia host cells for producing solvents, fuels and/or chemical intermediates, and preferably ethanol, from plant cell walls comprising: (a) at least one nucleic acid encoding a plant cell wall ... | 09/29/2011 |
