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US 2014/0273133 A1Published application
Ethanolic Fermentation with Immobilized Yeast
AssigneeUniversity of Idaho
InventorTushar Jain
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Abstract
Methods of fermentation utilizing immobilized yeast, wherein growth of the yeast during fermentation is inhibited, provide advantages over methods in which yeast are permitted to grow during fermentation.
Claims17
A method for fermenting a carbohydrate feedstock comprising combining the feedstock with immobilized yeast and permitting the yeast to ferment the feedstock, wherein growth of the yeast during the fermentation is inhibited or eliminated.
The method of claim I wherein the growth of the yeast is less than 5% per fermentation batch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.