Suspended solids separation
AssigneeICM, Inc.
InventorsScott D Kohl, Charles C Gallop, Kurt A Dieker
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Abstract
A method that includes clarifying a thin stillage product in a mechanical processor to produce a fine suspended solids stream and a clarified thin stillage is provided. The method further includes providing the thin stillage product and the clarified thin stillage, separately or in a combined stream, to one or more evaporators to produce one or more reduced suspended solids streams, each stream having a reduced amount of suspended solids and a lower viscosity as compared to process streams having a comparable total solids content but containing a higher amount of suspended solids. The method can further included further processing of one or more of the reduced suspended solids streams to produce a bio-oil product.
Claims11
A stillage product comprising fine suspended solids stream comprising:
- a protein content of greater than 29% by weight on a dry-matter basis;
- an acid detergent fiber content of less than 2% by weight on a dry-matter basis;
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- a neutral detergent insoluble protein of less than 2.5% by weight on a dry-matter basis.
A stillage product comprising fine suspended solids stream comprising:
- a total digestible nutrients of about 125%;
- a protein content of greater than 29% by weight on a dry-matter basis;
- an acid detergent fiber content of less than 2% by weight on a dry-matter basis;
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- a neutral detergent insoluble protein of less than 2.5% by weight on a dry-matter basis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.