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US 2023/0157313 A1Published application
Hemp seed products and methods and systems for producing same
AssigneeVictory Foods, PBC
InventorsCHAD WAKELAND-ROSEN, BENJAMIN RAYMOND
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Abstract
Methods and systems for producing improved hemp seed products, such as proteins and oils are provided.
Claims13
A system for processing hemp seeds to recover at least one product, the system comprising:
- a sorter, adapted to separate the hulls and the hemp hearts to produce an isolated hemp heart fraction is substantially free of hulls;
- a conditioner, adapted to condition the isolated hemp hearts to a pre-determined internal temperature and moisture content, resulting in conditioned hemp hearts;
- a press, adapted to permit extraction of oil from the hemp hearts, resulting in a hemp hearts press cake;
- a delumper, adapted to reduce size of lumps from the hemp hearts press cake, resulting in a substantially uniform hemp hearts particles;
- a super-critical fluid or a nonpolar solvent extractor, adapted to de-oil the hemp hearts powder to produce an extracted hemp seed product;
- a mill, suitable to reduce particle size to less than 500 micron.
- wherein, upon operation of the system, at least one product having at least one value parameter is recovered, wherein the product is at least one of an improved hemp seed oil product and an improved hemp seed protein product.
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A continuous method of producing an oil product from hemp seeds, the method comprising:
- a) dehulling the hemp seeds;
- b) sorting hemp hearts from hemp seed hulls;
- c) heating the isolated hemp hearts to at least 30° C. to produce conditioned hemp hearts;
- d) expeller-pressing the conditioned hemp hearts to produce pressed isolated hemp hearts;
- e) de-lumping the pressed isolated hemp hearts;
- f) dividing the de-lumped pressed isolated hemp hearts into a first output stream and a second output stream;
- g) mixing the first output stream with the conditioned hemp hearts after said conditioned hemp hearts are conditioned and before they are pressed, to produce a mixed product comprising the conditioned hemp hearts and the first output stream;
- h) recovering the oil from the expeller pressing step
- wherein the steps f) and g) are repeated until the second output stream is <15% residual oil.
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An apparatus comprising:
- an input of hemp seeds;
- a dehuller, adapted to dehull the hemp seeds, resulting in hulls and hemp hearts;
- a sorter, adapted to separate the hulls and the hemp hearts to produce an isolated hemp heart fraction that is substantially free of hulls and seed coat;
- a conditioner, adapted to condition the isolated hemp hearts to a pre-determined internal temperature and moisture content;
- a press, adapted to permit extraction of oil from the hemp hearts, resulting in a hemp hearts press cake;
- a delumper, adapted to reduce size of lumps from the hemp hearts press cake, resulting in a substantially uniform hemp hearts particles;
- a diverter adapted to divert the uniform hemp hearts particles into a first output stream and a second output stream;
- a returner adapted to return the first output stream to the system between the conditioner and the press;
- a mixer adapted to mix the first output stream with the conditioned hemp hearts;
- a collector adapted to collect the second output stream;
- a super-critical fluid or a nonpolar solvent extractor, adapted to de-oil the second output stream to produce an extracted hemp seed product;
- a mill, suitable to reduce particle size to less than 500 microns;
- and
- a feedback component.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.