Feedstocks for oil production and methods of using the same
OwnerLauren Ann Riley Drumm, Julia Rae Friedman +2inventors
InventorsLauren Ann Riley Drumm, Julia Rae Friedman, Andrew John Borchert, Katherine Noon
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are feedstocks and methods of culturing A. pullulans for heavy oil production. A method of producing heavy oil can include providing one or more feedstocks comprising deacetylated and mechanically refined lignocellulosic hydrolysate media and one or more nutritional carbon sources, culturing a cell population comprising A. pullulans, or a genetically modified version thereof, on the one or more feedstocks, and generating the heavy oil using the cell population.
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A method of producing heavy oil comprising:
- providing one or more feedstocks comprising deacetylated and mechanically refined (DMR) lignocellulosic hydrolysate media and one or more nutritional carbon sources, wherein the one or more nutritional sources comprises one or more carbohydrates;
- culturing a cell population comprising Aureobasidium pullulans (A. pullulans), or a genetically modified version thereof, on the one or more feedstocks;
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- generating the heavy oil using the cell population.
A feedstock for use in heavy oil production, the feedstock comprising:
- one or more deacetylated and mechanically refined (DMR) lignocellulosic hydrolysate media;
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- one or more nutritional carbon sources, wherein the one or more nutritional sources comprise one or more carbohydrates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.