Back to results
US 2013/0260423 A1Published application
Methods of Saccharifying Sugar Cane Trash
AssigneesNovozymes North America, Inc., Novozymes A/S
InventorsBenjamin Knudsen, Armindo Ribeiro Gaspar
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods of saccharifying the trash (leaf) fraction of sugar cane using enzymes.
Claims15
A method of degrading or converting sugar cane trash, comprising:
- separating the sugar cane trash from sugar cane and saccharifying the sugar cane trash with an enzyme composition.
A method of producing a fermentation product, comprising:
- (a) harvesting and separating sugar cane trash from sugar cane;
- (b) pretreating the sugar cane trash;
- (c) saccharifying the sugar cane trash with an enzyme composition;
- (d) fermenting the saccharified sugar cane trash with one or more fermenting microorganisms to produce the fermentation product;
- and
- (e) recovering the fermentation product from the fermentation.
3 more elements
A method of producing a fermentation product, comprising:
- (a) saccharifying sugar cane trash with an enzyme composition;
- (b) fermenting the saccharified sugar cane trash with one or more fermenting microorganisms to produce the fermentation product;
- and
- (c) recovering the fermentation product from the fermentation.
1 more element
15-20. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.