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US 2018/0023047 A1Published application
Flowable microbial oil
AssigneeMara Renewables Corporation
InventorsXuan Jiang, Dorothy Dennis, Roberto E. Armenta
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Abstract
Provided herein is a method for obtaining flowable oil comprising the steps of providing a population of oil-producing microorganisms; recovering oil from the microorganisms, wherein the oil is at a first temperature; reducing the first temperature over a first period of time to a second temperature; and applying mechanical energy to the oil during the first period of time thereby producing the flowable oil.
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A method for obtaining flowable oil comprising the steps of providing a population of oil-producing microorganisms;
- recovering oil from the microorganisms, wherein the oil is at a first temperature;
- reducing the first temperature over a first period of time to a second temperature;
- and applying mechanical energy to the oil during the first period of time thereby producing the flowable oil, wherein the method is carried out without further purification steps and in the absence of agents that decrease oil viscosity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.