Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
435271000 | Glyceridic oil, fat, ester-type wax, or higher fatty acid recovered or purified | 26 |
20110003370 | PROCESS TO REMOVE IMPURITIES FROM TRIACYLGLYCEROL OIL - The present invention is directed to a process to remove impurities from triacylglycerol oil including mixing the oil and a fluidic agent, pumping the mixture through a flow-through hydrodynamic cavitation apparatus at a pre-determined inlet pump pressure, creating hydrodynamic cavitation in the mixture, maintaining the hydrodynamic cavitation for a pre-determined period of time, moving the impurities from the oil to the fluidic agent, and then separating the fluidic agent from the oil. The impurities can include phytosterols, sterol glucosides, acylated sterol glucosides, in which case the fluidic agent is water, an alkali hydroxide, an inorganic base, an organic base, phosphoric acid, citric acid, acetic acid or a mixture thereof. The impurities may also include phosphatides, in which case and the fluidic agent comprises water and an enzyme such as phospholipase, a lipid acyltransferase or a mixture thereof. | 01-06-2011 |
20110189760 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIPIDS - The present invention relates to a method for efficiently extracting and producing lipid components from crustaceans. A method for producing lipids, characterized by obtaining a squeezed liquid by squeezing a whole crustacean or a part thereof, heating the squeezed liquid to a temperature at which proteins contained in the squeezed liquid coagulate, carrying out solid-liquid separation so as to separate the heated squeezed liquid into a solid component that contains lipid components and an aqueous component that contains water-soluble components, washing the resulting solid containing lipids or a dried product thereof with water, dehydrating and/or drying, and then extracting lipids from the solid containing lipids or the dried product thereof. | 08-04-2011 |
20110244556 | Process For Preparing Ganoderma Spore Oil - The present invention relates to a method for preparing | 10-06-2011 |
20120009658 | Method and Systems for Enhancing Oil Recovery From Ethanol Production Byproducts - Methods and related systems efficiently and effectively recover a significant amount of valuable, useable oil from byproducts formed during a dry milling process used for producing ethanol. The method may include forming a concentrate from the byproduct and recovering oil from the concentrate. The step of forming the concentrate may comprise evaporating the byproduct using a multi-stage evaporator, as well as recovering the oil before the final stage of the evaporator. Further, the step of recovering oil from the concentrate may comprise using a centrifuge and, in particular, a disk stack centrifuge. Other aspects include related methods and subsystems for recovering oil. | 01-12-2012 |
20120009659 | ENZYMATIC REMOVAL OF STERYL GLYCOSIDES IN FATTY ACID ALKYL ESTERS - The present invention relates to a process of reducing the content of steryl glycoside in a bio-diesel composition which comprises a step of contacting the composition with an enzyme being capable of acylating the steryl glycoside. | 01-12-2012 |
20120040443 | CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR ISOLATION OF OILS FROM ALGAE OR MICRO ORGANISMS - The present invention relates to a continuous process for isolation of oils from a micro organism slurry or an algae slurry comprising feeding the slurry into a three phase centrifugal separator having a stack of separating discs and operating under force of at least 4500 G, preferably under a force of at least 5000 G, obtaining three phases: one oil phase, one liquid phase and one bio-organic phase. The present invention relates also to use of the process for production of bio-diesel or bio-fuels. | 02-16-2012 |
20120077255 | PROCESS FOR EXTRACTING FATTY ACIDS FROM AQUEOUS BIOMASS IN A MEMBRANE CONTACTOR MODULE - The present invention relates to a new process for extracting fatty acids from aqueous biomass in a membrane contactor module. The present invention also relates to an integrated process combining biomass concentration and/or diafiltration and fatty acid extraction in said membrane contactor module. | 03-29-2012 |
20120276618 | HYDROLASES, NUCLEIC ACIDS ENCODING THEM AND METHODS FOR BIOCATALYTIC SYNTHESIS OF STRUCTURED LIPIDS - Provided are hydrolases, including lipases, saturases, palmitases and/or stearatases, and polynucleotides encoding them, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Further provided are polypeptides, e.g., enzymes, having a hydrolase activity, e.g., lipases, saturases, palmitases and/or stearatases and methods for preparing low saturate or low trans fat oils, such as low saturate or low trans fat animal or vegetable oils, e.g., soy or canola oils. | 11-01-2012 |
20130171721 | DISRUPTION OF CELL WALLS FOR ENHANCED LIPID RECOVERY - Presented herein are methods of using cell wall degrading enzymes for recovery of internal lipid bodies from biomass sources such as algae. Also provided are algal cells that express at least one exogenous gene encoding a cell wall degrading enzyme and methods for recovering lipids from the cells. | 07-04-2013 |
20130252317 | PROCESS FOR THE ENZYMATIC PURIFICATION OF OILS OF VEGETABLE OR ANIMAL ORIGIN - A method for the enzymatic breakdown of phosphorus-containing constituents and glycosides, in particular steryl glycoside, from crude oil or pre-degummed oil of vegetable or animal origin, wherein for both cases the addition of the enzymes is effected in one method step. | 09-26-2013 |
20130302881 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING REFINED VEGETABLE OIL - A method of producing a refined, bleached and deodorised vegetable oil comprises degumming a vegetable oil, bleaching the degummed oil and deodorising the bleached oil, wherein the degumming, bleaching and deodorising conditions are selected to reduce the content of 3-chloropropane-1,2-diol and esters thereof in the deodorised oil to less than 8 ppm. | 11-14-2013 |
20130337550 | PROCESS FOR THE EXTRACTION OF LIPIDS - The present invention provides a process for the extraction of lipids from microbial lipid-containing feedstock, comprising the steps of (a) subjecting the microbial lipid-containing feedstock to a treatment to release the lipids thereby producing a mixture; (b) subjecting the mixture obtained in (a) to a filtration in the presence of a first extraction solvent on a filter, wherein organic matter soluble in an extraction solvent and an aqueous mixture are removed as filtrate from a retentate comprising non-soluble matter; (c) separating the filtrate obtained from the filter into an organic and aqueous phase; and (d) subjecting the organic phase to a distillation treatment to separate solvent and an organic residue comprising extracted lipids. | 12-19-2013 |
20130344576 | EXTRACTION OF SCENEDESMUS CELL COMPONENTS - The technology disclosed herein relates to novel methods and compositions for the production processes of algae cell components from algae of the genus | 12-26-2013 |
20140073038 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCING OIL RECOVERY FROM ETHANOL PRODUCTION BYPRODUCTS - In one aspect of the invention, a method recovers oil from a concentrated byproduct, such as evaporated thin stillage formed during a dry milling process used for producing ethanol. The method includes forming a concentrate from the byproduct and recovering oil from the concentrate. The step of forming the concentrate may comprise evaporating the byproduct. Further, the step of separating the oil from the concentrate may comprise using a centrifuge and, in particular, a disk stack centrifuge. Other aspects of the invention include related methods and subsystems for recovering oil from thin stillage. | 03-13-2014 |
20140093945 | Fractionation of Oil-Bearing Microbial Biomass - The invention generally relates to the production of hydrocarbon compositions, such as a lipid, in microorganisms. In particular, the invention provides methods for extracting, recovering, isolating and obtaining a lipid from a microorganism and compositions comprising the lipid. The invention also discloses methods for producing hydrocarbon compositions for use as biodiesel, renewable diesel, jet fuel, and other materials. | 04-03-2014 |
20140193890 | THERMOSTABLE ENZYMES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME - Provided herein are compositions and methods for enhancing enzyme activity, half-life and/or thermostability. Also provided herein are compositions and methods including the enhanced enzymes. Also provided herein are methods and compositions related to improved pectinolytic enzymes, such as pectate lyase, which exhibit enhanced activity, thermostability and/or longer half-life. | 07-10-2014 |
20140220664 | Systems and Methods for Culturing Algae With Bivalves - Provided herein are systems and methods for extracting lipids and/or producing biofuel from algae in marine and freshwater environments, wherein algae and bivalves are co-cultured in a system of enclosures comprising water that comprises recycled nutrients that are essential for algal growth. The system also include enclosures for culturing fishes which are used to harvest the algae. | 08-07-2014 |
20150017708 | COMPOSITION FOR ENZYMATIC OIL DEGUMMING - The invention relates to a composition comprising at least one phospholipid-cleaving enzyme. The invention further relates to a method for degumming raw oils using the composition according to the invention and to the use of the composition according to the invention to degum raw oils. | 01-15-2015 |
20150291909 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A VEGETABLE FAT COMPOSITION - The invention relates to a method for processing a vegetable fat composition (VFC), the method comprising the steps of:
| 10-15-2015 |
20150299612 | Process - A method of removing the blue colour from an azulene-containing essential oil, comprising the addition of the oil to water buffered at pH 3-7.5 and its subsequent treatment with a laccase enzyme-mediator system, the laccase being selected from those derived from | 10-22-2015 |
20160010026 | METHODS OF RECOVERING OIL FROM MICROORGANISMS | 01-14-2016 |
20160060568 | PROCESS FOR IMPROVING AQUEOUS ENZYMATIC DEGUMMING OF VEGETABLE OILS - A method for degumming vegetable oils or reducing the oil content in vegetable oil gum using at least one glycoside-breaking enzyme, wherein the at least one glycoside-breaking enzyme does not exhibit phospholipase or acyltransferase activity, and the composition does not contain phospholipase or acyltransferase. | 03-03-2016 |
20160122684 | Method for Aqueous Enzymatic Extraction of Soybean Oil - The present invention provides a method for aqueous enzymatic extraction of soybean oil, which is in the field of extraction processing technology for plant oil. The method comprises treating crushed and peeled soybeans with an extrusion puffing process and a hydrolysis process with an alkaline proteinase, followed by a liquid nitrogen freezing and a high voltage electrostatic thawing process, and finally obtaining soybean oil by centrifugation. The benefits of the present invention includes short extraction time and high extraction yield. It saves up to 93.1% of time in the freezing and thawing process alone. The total oil yield is up to 95.4%. Furthermore, the method of the invention produces high quality oil with a low peroxide value, a low p-anisidine value and a low TOTOX value. | 05-05-2016 |
20160152922 | PROCESS OF EXTRACTING OIL FROM THIN STILLAGE | 06-02-2016 |
20160167995 | TREATMENT/CLEANING OF OILY WATER/WASTEWATER USING ALGAE | 06-16-2016 |
20160201006 | Methods for Obtaining Corn Oil from Milled Corn Germ | 07-14-2016 |