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US 12,091,646 B2Granted
Methods for moisture removal and pest control of grains
AssigneeFermentation Technology Services
InventorSteffen Mueller
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides methods for treating one or more grains in an ethanol plant or alcohol brewery, methods of drying, cooling, disease control of dried distillers grains with soluble (DDG), barley, or brewer's spent grain (BSG), and a system for treating one or more grains in an ethanol plant or alcohol brewery by these disclosed methods.
Claims16
A method of drying one or more spent grains in an ethanol plant or alcohol brewery, the method comprising:
- directing captured CO2 from the ethanol plant or alcohol brewery into a spent grain stored in a grain storage facility, wherein the captured CO2 is a byproduct of alcohol fermentation of a grain at the ethanol plant or alcohol brewery.
A method comprising:
- providing an ethanol plant or alcohol brewery;
- providing an alcohol fermentation of a grain facility on site at the ethanol plant or alcohol brewery;
- capturing CO2 produced from the alcohol fermentation of thermal energy generation of the grain facility;
- providing a spent grain storage facility on site at the ethanol plant or alcohol brewery;
- directing the CO2 captured from the alcohol fermentation or thermal energy generation of spent grain facility through spent grain stored in the spent grain storage facility;
- wherein the CO2 directed through the spent grain serves to dry the spent grain stored in the spent grain storage facility;
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- wherein the CO2 directed through the grain serves to provide disease control of the spent grain stored in the spent grain storage facility.
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